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enum en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɪˈnum/ (General-American)
• /ˈinʌm/ (General-American)

Etymology

Clipping of enumeration, used as a keyword in the C programming language and its descendants.

Meanings

1. An enumeration.
   • A unique feature of enums is that when you switch on a variable of an enum type, you do not prefix the case statements […] 2009, Richard F Raposa, SCJP: Sun Certified Programmer for Java Platform (Exam CX-310-065):
   • Enums allow you to define a type made up of a finite set of identifiers, with each identifier mapping to an integer. 2007, Robert Pickering, Foundations of F#:
   • The Access object model contains many enums that you can use in your applications. 2007, Teresa Hennig, Rob Cooper, Geoffrey L Griffith, Armen Stein, Access 2007 VBA Programmer's Reference:

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