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multimethod

multimethod adjective: employing multiple methods.

Adjective

multimethod (not comparable)

  1. Employing multiple methods.

Noun

multimethod (plural multimethods)

  1. (object-oriented programming) A method that uses multiple dispatch, allowing various implementations to be called depending on the types of the arguments.

Forms of multimethod

Adjective
alternative formmulti-method
Noun
pluralmultimethods

Origin of multimethod

From multi- + method.

Questions about multimethod

What does multimethod mean?
Multimethod means employing multiple methods.
What part of speech is multimethod?
Multimethod can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near multimethod in the dictionary

  1. multimetaphorical
  2. multimetastasis
  3. multimetastatic
  4. multimeter
  5. multimeters
  6. multimethod
  7. multimethodological
  8. multimethodologically
  9. multimethodologies
  10. multimethodology
  11. multimethods

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