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templatize en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • tĕmˈ-plə-tīzˌ
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈtɛm.pləˌtaɪz/

Etymology

From template + -ize.

Meanings

  1. (especially, transitive) To convert into a template or to represent by means of a template, for purposes of genericizing, automating, tracking, etc.
    • We must templatize the engine with the base types of the two arguments (left-hand side and right-hand side). 2001, Andrei Alexandrescu, Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied:
    • This makes it trivial to templatize your application; changes to the new generic base form automatically cascade to the derived classes at the next build. 2004, Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland, Windows Forms programming in Visual Basic.NET:
    • For our final look at metaprogramming, we templatize matrix multiplication. 2000, Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems:
    • To ensure a professional-looking product and fewer hassles, take the first step and 'templatize' your pattern pieces. 1979 November 12, Kathy Faryon, “Patchwork Quilting”, in Edmonton Journal, →ISSN, page B6:
    • An iterator is a generalization of a pointer and we could templatize the code to work off any iterator. 2008, Mark S Joshi, C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
templatized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
templatized Tense=Past lexicographic
templatise UK, alternative lexicographic
templatizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
templatizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

nontemplatized · templatizable · templatization