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<p>A <b>stereotype</b> is one of three types of <a href="page.php?w=extensibility">extensibility mechanisms</a> in the <a href="page.php?w=Unified_Modeling_Language">Unified Modeling Language</a> (UML), the other two being tags and constraints. They allow designers to extend the vocabulary of UML in order to create new model elements, derived from existing ones, but that have specific properties that are suitable for a particular domain or otherwise specialized usage. The nomenclature is derived from the original meaning of <a href="page.php?w=Stereotype_%28printing%29">stereotype</a>,</p><p>
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