primitive type en · NOUN
Meanings
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(idiomatic) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
Although assembly language has no primitive types in the way that high-level languages do, assemblers do provide directives to allocate and interpret blocks of memory in specific, low-level ways, highly dependent on the target processor architecture, which programmers can think of as being effectively like primitive types.
Holonym: type system
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system).
The television that existed in the 1920s was of a primitive type, but it paved the way for what would come later.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| primitive types | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
archetype · intersection type · prototype · linear type · union type · reference type · built-in type · abstract type · existential type
Hypernyms
Translations (2)
el αρχέγονος τύπος (Translations) · el αρχέγονος τύπος δεδομένων (Translations)