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hygenic

hygenic is the misspelling of hygienic.

Meaning of hygienic

Adjective

hygienic (comparative more hygienic, superlative most hygienic)

  1. Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
  2. (slang) Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
    • Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic...2014, Colin Jones, Mastering Clojure Macros: Write Cleaner, Faster, Smarter Code, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN

Forms of hygenic

comparativemore hygenic
superlativemost hygenic

Questions about hygenic

What is hygenic the misspelling of?
Hygenic is the misspelling of hygienic.

Words near hygenic in the dictionary

  1. hygeiolatry
  2. hygeiotherapy
  3. hygeist
  4. hygeistic
  5. hygeists
  6. hygenic
  7. hygenicist
  8. hygenicists
  9. hygenist
  10. hygeology
  11. hygge

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