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typechecks

typechecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about typechecks

What is typechecks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Typechecks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of typecheck.

Words near typechecks in the dictionary

  1. typecheck
  2. typechecked
  3. typechecker
  4. typecheckers
  5. typechecking
  6. typechecks
  7. typeclass
  8. typeclasses
  9. typecutter
  10. typecutters
  11. typed

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