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autoboxing

autoboxing noun: automatic boxing, the implicit conversion of primitive data types to wrapper objects.

Noun

autoboxing (uncountable)

  1. (object-oriented programming) Automatic boxing, the implicit conversion of primitive data types to wrapper objects.
    • Autoboxing and unboxing are typically used for collections of primitives. Autoboxing involves the dynamic allocation of memory and initialization of an object for each primitive.2014, Robert Liguori, Patricia Liguori, Java 8 Pocket Guide, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 28

autoboxing meaning in Bengali

autoboxing in Bengali

স্বয়ংক্রিয় বক্সিং

Origin of autoboxing

From auto- + boxing.

Questions about autoboxing

What does autoboxing mean?
Autoboxing means automatic boxing, the implicit conversion of primitive data types to wrapper objects.
What is autoboxing in Bengali?
Autoboxing in Bengali is স্বয়ংক্রিয় বক্সিং. See Autoboxing meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is autoboxing?
Autoboxing is a noun.

Words near autoboxing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autoboxing (page history and authors); autoboxing (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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