👉 In a programming context, "runted" is a type of object that can be created by either an instance of a class or an instance of another class. It represents a special case where a constructor for a subclass cannot be used because it does not have a default constructor, but instead uses the super() method to create a new instance. For example: ```python class Runted(object): def __init__(self): print("Constructor called") runted = Runted() ``