delegation

noun5

1. •
   An act of delegating.
2. •
   A group of delegates.
3. •
   The condition of being delegated.
4. •
   The act whereby or constellation in which the performance of an obligation (owed to an obligee, presuming its validity; irrespective of the obligation as the target of the delegation, rarely called delegatary) is assigned by its debtor (delegator, obligor) to and towards another party (delegatee, delegate)
5. •
   A method-dispatching technique describing the lookup and inheritance rules for self-referential calls.