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pointerless

pointerless adjective: without the use of pointers.

Adjective

pointerless (not comparable)

  1. Without the use of pointers.
    • We will see, however, that the pointerless techniques are seldom satisfactory. Implementations of trees tend to be more complex than those of ordered lists.1989, Allen Kent, James G Williams, Rosalind Kent, Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 4
    • The list representation is a pointerless representation that facilitates sequential access but is inefficient for random access to specific image elements.1992, Giorgio Gambosi, Michel O Scholl, Hans-Werner Six, Geographic database management systems: workshop proceedings, Capri, Italy

Origin of pointerless

From pointer + -less.

Questions about pointerless

What does pointerless mean?
Pointerless means without the use of pointers.
What part of speech is pointerless?
Pointerless is an adjective.

Words near pointerless in the dictionary

  1. pointels
  2. pointen
  3. pointer
  4. pointer finger
  5. pointer fingers
  6. pointerless
  7. pointerlike
  8. pointers
  9. pointes
  10. pointest
  11. pointeth

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