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control structures

control structures is the plural of control structure.

Meaning of control structure

Noun

control structure (plural control structures)

  1. A structure used to direct the flow of execution of a program.
    • In C++ you can and often will nest control structures: place one conditional within another; put a loop within another loop; have a conditional within a loop; and so forth.2005, Larry Ullman, Andreas Signer, C++ Programming: Visual QuickStart Guide, Pearson Education, →ISBN

Questions about control structures

What is control structures the plural of?
Control structures is the plural of control structure.

Words near control structures in the dictionary

  1. control room
  2. control rooms
  3. control stick
  4. control sticks
  5. control structure
  6. control structures
  7. control surface
  8. control surfaces
  9. control theories
  10. control theory
  11. control tower

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