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CRTP

CRTP is the initialism of curiously recurring template pattern.

Meaning of curiously recurring template pattern

Noun

curiously recurring template pattern (plural curiously recurring template patterns)

  1. An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.
    Synonyms:
    CRTP

Forms of CRTP

pluralCRTPs

Questions about CRTP

What is CRTP the initialism of?
CRTP is the initialism of curiously recurring template pattern.

Words near CRTP in the dictionary

  1. CRSDs
  2. CRSs
  3. CRT
  4. CRTC
  5. CRTCs
  6. CRTP
  7. CRTPs
  8. CRTs
  9. cru
  10. crubeen
  11. crubeens

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CRTP (page history and authors); curiously recurring template pattern (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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