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type-check

type-check is the alternative form of typecheck.

Meaning of typecheck

Verb

typecheck (third-person singular simple present typechecks, present participle typechecking, simple past and past participle typechecked)

  1. (transitive) To verify whether a given value belongs to a certain data type.
    • Lastly, we demonstrate using Hummingbird in Rails development mode to typecheck an app as live updates are applied to it..2016, Brianna M. Ren, Jeffrey S. Foster, “Just-in-Time Static Type Checking for Dynamic Languages”, in arXiv

Forms of type-check

third-person singular presenttype-checks
present participletype-checking
past participletype-checked
pasttype-checked

Questions about type-check

What is type-check the alternative form of?
Type-check is the alternative form of typecheck.

Words near type-check in the dictionary

  1. type varieties
  2. type variety
  3. type wheel
  4. type wheels
  5. type xi
  6. type-check
  7. type-checked
  8. type-checking
  9. type-checks
  10. type-face
  11. type-faces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: type-check (page history and authors); typecheck (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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