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homoiconicity

/ˌhəʊ.məʊˌaɪ.kɒˈnɪ.sɪ.ti/

homoiconicity noun: a property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself.

Noun

homoiconicity (uncountable)

  1. A property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself.
    • Homoiconicity is a feature of a programming language system that denotes that a computer program has the same form as the data that are input and output by the program.2010, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Semiotics of Programming, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 179

Origin of homoiconicity

From homoiconic (“self-representing”) + -icity.

Questions about homoiconicity

What does homoiconicity mean?
Homoiconicity means a property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself.
What part of speech is homoiconicity?
Homoiconicity is a noun.
How do you pronounce homoiconicity?
Homoiconicity is pronounced /ˌhəʊ.məʊˌaɪ.kɒˈnɪ.sɪ.ti/.

Words near homoiconicity in the dictionary

  1. homoi-
  2. Homoian
  3. Homoianism
  4. Homoians
  5. homoiconic
  6. homoiconicity
  7. homoimerous
  8. homoimmune
  9. homoimmunity
  10. homoing
  11. homointerface

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