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defactored

defactored is the simple past and past participle of defactor.

Meaning of defactor

Verb

defactor (third-person singular simple present defactors, present participle defactoring, simple past and past participle defactored)

  1. (rare) To modify source code to remove design patterns and structure, for example to make it harder to reverse-engineer.
    • One of my favorite transformations is to use threads to confuse a hacker who is trying to steal code. […] Many of the transformations I've discussed go against the programmer's natural sense of what's good and right […] You also don't have to defactor (see the section "Removing Programming Idioms")...2012, Godfrey Nolan, Decompiling Android, page 137

Questions about defactored

What is defactored the simple past and past participle of?
Defactored is the simple past and past participle of defactor.

Words near defactored in the dictionary

  1. defacingly
  2. defacings
  3. defactinib
  4. defacto
  5. defactor
  6. defactored
  7. defactoring
  8. defactors
  9. defactos
  10. defactualization
  11. defactualize

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