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externe

externe is the archaic spelling of extern.

Meaning of extern

Noun (1)

extern (plural externs)

  1. A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
    1. A day-scholar.
  2. Outward form or part; exterior.

Noun (2)

extern (plural externs)

  1. In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
    • Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open().1995, Martin L. Rinehart, Learn C++ Today!, page 552

See all 5 meanings of extern

Forms of externe

pluralexternes

Origin of externe

Borrowed from French externe.

Questions about externe

What is externe the archaic spelling of?
Externe is the archaic spelling of extern.

Words near externe in the dictionary

  1. externally
  2. externalness
  3. externals
  4. externat
  5. externats
  6. externe
  7. externes
  8. externity
  9. externize
  10. externized
  11. externizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: externe (page history and authors); extern (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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