Efferent coupling

Efferent coupling (often abbreviated as "Ce") is a software metric that measures the number of classes, modules, or components that a particular class, module, or component directly depends on. Specifically, it refers to the count of outgoing dependencies for a given entity, indicating how many other entities it uses or depends on. In object-oriented programming (OOP) and software design: - **Efferent Coupling** reflects the dependencies that exit a class.