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OCaml

/oʊˈkæməl/

OCaml proper noun: a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Caml dialect of ML.

Proper noun

OCaml

  1. A general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Caml dialect of ML.
    • Minsky, a computer science PhD, convinced his employer 10 years ago to rewrite the company’s entire trading system in OCaml.2015 April 2, James Somers, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review

Origin of OCaml

Short from its former name, Objective Caml.

Questions about OCaml

What does OCaml mean?
OCaml means a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Caml dialect of ML.
What part of speech is OCaml?
OCaml is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce OCaml?
OCaml is pronounced /oʊˈkæməl/.

Words near OCaml in the dictionary

  1. OC sprays
  2. Oc.
  3. oca
  4. Ocaina
  5. Ocala
  6. OCaml
  7. Ocampo
  8. Ocampos
  9. ocaperidone
  10. ocarina
  11. ocarinas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OCaml (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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