undef
undef is the abbreviation of undefined.
Meaning of undefined
Adjective
undefined (not comparable)
- Lacking a definition or value.
- We slid into our office, past two women discussing the "X factor," an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.1992, Lia Matera, Prior Convictions, page 121
- Synonyms:
- indefinite
- That does not have a logically sound meaning within a specific formal system and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
- The result of division by zero is undefined.
- That behaves unreliably due to dependence on an uninitialized value or inconsistently ported code.
- In C, relying on a variable's value right after a malloc call is undefined behvaior.
Questions about undef
- What is undef the abbreviation of?
- Undef is the abbreviation of undefined.
Words near undef in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: undef (page history and authors); undefined (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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