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A: Dynamic method dispatch is the process the Java runtime system uses to determine which method implementation to call in an inheritance hierarchy. For example, the Object class has a toString() method that all subclasses inherit, but the String class overrides this method to return its string content. If a String or other object type is assigned to an Object reference using application logic, the Java compiler cannot know in advance where a call to the toString() method will be resolved, it must be determined dynamically at runtime.
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