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typecheck

typecheck verb: to verify whether a given value belongs to a certain data type.

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 typecheck

third-person singular presenttypechecks
present participletypechecking
past participletypechecked
pasttypechecked

Questions about typecheck

What does typecheck mean?
Typecheck means to verify whether a given value belongs to a certain data type.
What part of speech is typecheck?
Typecheck is a verb.
What is the past tense of typecheck?
The past tense of typecheck is typechecked.

Words near typecheck in the dictionary

  1. typecast
  2. typecasted
  3. typecasting
  4. typecastings
  5. typecasts
  6. typecheck
  7. typechecked
  8. typechecker
  9. typecheckers
  10. typechecking
  11. typechecks

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