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autoboxed

autoboxed adjective: automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).

Adjective

autoboxed (not comparable)

  1. (object-oriented programming) Automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).
    • The error indicates that we cannot typecast and modify data of an autoboxed variable.2006, Christian Gross, How to code .NET, page 38
    • In the second statement the value 85.1 is autoboxed in order to conform to the type of Double.2006, David D. Riley, The object of Java, page 484

Origin of autoboxed

From auto- + boxed.

Questions about autoboxed

What does autoboxed mean?
Autoboxed means automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).
What part of speech is autoboxed?
Autoboxed is an adjective.

Words near autoboxed in the dictionary

  1. autoboot
  2. autobooted
  3. autobooting
  4. autoboots
  5. autobox
  6. autoboxed
  7. autoboxes
  8. autoboxing
  9. autobracket
  10. autobracketed
  11. autobracketing

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