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shallow copies

shallow copies is the plural of shallow copy.

Meaning of shallow copy

Noun

shallow copy (plural shallow copies)

  1. A copy of a data structure which shares any linked structures with the original.
    • If you modify that, you'll modify all the shallow copies of the header that points to it.

Questions about shallow copies

What is shallow copies the plural of?
Shallow copies is the plural of shallow copy.

Words near shallow copies in the dictionary

  1. shallot
  2. shallots
  3. shallow
  4. Shallow Bay
  5. shallow brooks are noisy
  6. shallow copies
  7. shallow copy
  8. shallow cove
  9. shallow coves
  10. shallow embedding
  11. shallow embeddings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shallow copies (page history and authors); shallow copy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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