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primitive types

primitive types is the plural of primitive type.

Meaning of primitive type

Noun

primitive type (plural primitive types)

  1. (idiomatic) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
    • Holonym: type system
    Antonyms:
    composite type
  2. 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.

Questions about primitive types

What is primitive types the plural of?
Primitive types is the plural of primitive type.

Words near primitive types in the dictionary

  1. primitive root
  2. primitive roots
  3. primitive streak
  4. primitive streaks
  5. primitive type
  6. primitive types
  7. primitive wrapper class
  8. primitive wrapper classes
  9. primitively
  10. primitiveness
  11. primitivenesses

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