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undef

undef is the abbreviation of undefined.

Meaning of undefined

Adjective

undefined (not comparable)

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

See all 4 meanings of undefined

Questions about undef

What is undef the abbreviation of?
Undef is the abbreviation of undefined.

Words near undef in the dictionary

  1. undee
  2. undeeded
  3. undeemed
  4. undeep
  5. undeerlike
  6. undef
  7. undefaceable
  8. undefaced
  9. undefalcated
  10. undefamed
  11. undefatigable

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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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