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polytypes

polytypes is the plural of polytype.

Meaning of polytype

Noun

polytype (plural polytypes)

  1. Any of the types involved in polytypism.
    • Orthochrysotile is a polytype of chrysotile.
  2. A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
    • Towards the end of the eighteenth century , Professor Wilson of Glasgow , being engaged in a series of experiments for making etchings upon glass with fluoric acid for the purposes of art , thought it possible to make polytypes of glass from engraved copperplates1825, Thomas Curson Hansard, Typographia, an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing
  3. In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ∀ (for-all) quantifiers.

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Questions about polytypes

What is polytypes the plural of?
Polytypes is the plural of polytype.

Words near polytypes in the dictionary

  1. polytunnel
  2. polytunnels
  3. polytypage
  4. polytype
  5. polytyped
  6. polytypes
  7. polytypic
  8. polytypical
  9. polytyping
  10. polytypism
  11. polytypisms

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