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forward declarations

forward declarations is the plural of forward declaration.

Meaning of forward declaration

Noun

forward declaration (countable and uncountable, plural forward declarations)

  1. The declaration of an identifier before it is given a complete definition, so that the compiler can know its data type and memory size.

Questions about forward declarations

What is forward declarations the plural of?
Forward declarations is the plural of forward declaration.

Words near forward declarations in the dictionary

  1. forward compatibility
  2. forward compatible
  3. forward contract
  4. forward contracts
  5. forward declaration
  6. forward declarations
  7. forward dive
  8. forward dives
  9. forward echo
  10. forward echoes
  11. forward genetic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forward declarations (page history and authors); forward declaration (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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