In object-oriented programming, a special method used to initialize an object when it is created.
See also: コンストラクタ
Javaでは、クラス名と同じ名前のメソッドが構築子になる。
In Java, a method with the same name as the class becomes the constructor.
Compound of 構築 (construction) and 子 (element/child), likely a calque or translation of the English computing term 'constructor'.