primitive type
primitive type noun: a data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
Noun
primitive type (plural primitive types)
- A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
- Holonym: type system
- Although assembly language has no primitive types in the way that high-level languages do, assemblers do provide directives to allocate and interpret blocks of memory in specific, low-level ways, highly dependent on the target processor architecture, which programmers can think of as being...
- Antonyms:
- composite type
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system).
- The television that existed in the 1920s was of a primitive type, but it paved the way for what would come later.
Antonyms of primitive type
Forms of primitive type
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Questions about primitive type
- What does primitive type mean?
- Primitive type means a data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
- What part of speech is primitive type?
- Primitive type is a noun.
- What is the plural of primitive type?
- The plural of primitive type is primitive types.
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