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shallow-copy

shallow-copy verb: to make a shallow copy of.

Verb

shallow-copy (third-person singular simple present shallow-copies, present participle shallow-copying, simple past and past participle shallow-copied)

  1. (transitive) To make a shallow copy of.
    • The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.

Forms of shallow-copy

third-person singular presentshallow-copies
present participleshallow-copying
past participleshallow-copied
pastshallow-copied

Questions about shallow-copy

What does shallow-copy mean?
Shallow-copy means to make a shallow copy of.
What part of speech is shallow-copy?
Shallow-copy is a verb.
What is the past tense of shallow-copy?
The past tense of shallow-copy is shallow-copied.

Words near shallow-copy in the dictionary

  1. shallow fellow
  2. shallow fellows
  3. Shallow Water
  4. shallow-copied
  5. shallow-copies
  6. shallow-copy
  7. shallow-copying
  8. shallow-fried
  9. shallow-fries
  10. shallow-fry
  11. shallow-frying

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