Take your favorite search engine and you will find it explained numerously. For example Wikipedia is one of the first hits, complete with a java example.
In short, (runtime) polymorphism is a tool that allows us to write code that is better decoupled - the code that decides which method to call when can be different from the code that decides which implementation to use for that method call.
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