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A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
Topics: computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, science, sciences
Examples
- Holonym: type system
- Although assembly language has no primitive types in the way that high-level languages do, assemblers do provide directives to allocate and interpret blocks of memory in specific, low-level ways, highly dependent on the target processor architecture, which programmers can think of as being effectively like primitive types.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: composite type
Broader terms: data type, type
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The television that existed in the 1920s was of a primitive type, but it paved the way for what would come later.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: type
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Greek:
αρχέγονος τύπος δεδομένων
(archégonos týpos dedoménon)
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Greek:
αρχέγονος τύπος
(archégonos týpos)
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