English words for '(programming) A data type that is unspeakable.'
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noun
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- A member of a primitive society.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
- (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
- a variable quantity that is random
- an event that departs from expectations
- something a little different from others of the same type
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
adj
noun
- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
adj
adj
- (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
- Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic.
- (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
- (colloquial) Great; excellent.
- Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
- Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
- possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
noun
- (gaming, countable) The ability to cast a magic spell.
- (computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
- (countable) One such conjuring trick or illusion.
- Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
- (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
- (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.
- The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
- The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.
- any art that invokes supernatural powers
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
verb
noun
- (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Something or someone worthless.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
- a worthless message
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
adj
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- (programming) A data structure that has the semantics of an array of arrays, all of which may be indexed with values of any data type, usually with a supporting syntax built-into a programming language.
- (programming) A data structure consisting of a vector of vectors, in the case of a 2-dimensional array, or, in the case of an N-dimensional array, a vector of multidimensional arrays of degree N minus 1, thereby allowing the simulation of a N-dimensional grid of storage locations using an underlying memory architecture in which storage is addressed in a linear fashion.
- (programming) Any abstraction, usually a memory-resident data structure, that addresses storage locations via an N-dimensional coordinate space.
noun
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
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- (computing, uncountable) The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
- (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
- (countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
- (uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
- darkening or obscuring the sight of something
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
noun
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- Alternative form of cod.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
verb
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- (cryptography) To encode.
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- (computing) To write software programs.
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
noun
- (programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
- A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
- The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
- A list; especially, a numbered list.
- A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
- a numbered list
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
noun
- (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
- A large collection.
- A microarray.
- (military) A militia.
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- (mathematics) A matrix.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
- an orderly arrangement
- especially fine or decorative clothing
- an impressive display
verb
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
noun
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
noun
- (uncountable, programming) Initialism of return-oriented programming.
- (uncountable, advertising) Initialism of run of press.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of retinopathy of prematurity.
- (uncountable, advertising) Initialism of run of paper.
- (countable, computer graphics) A Render Output unit or raster operations pipeline.
noun
- (computing) Any unreferenced object.
- (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- A young animal with no mother.
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
- a young animal without a mother
- a child who has lost both parents
- the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
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verb
noun
- (computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
- (uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.
- The state of being volatile.
- (uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
- (finance, countable) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- (uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
- being easily excited
- the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
noun
- (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
verb
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
- (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- cause to lean to the side
- tilt to one side
- include in a list
- enumerate
noun
- (programming) The act of converting between data types.
- (countable) An object made in a mold.
- The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
- A manufacturing process using a mold.
- The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
- (hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
- The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.^([W])
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- object formed by a mold
- the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie
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noun
- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
name
noun
- (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
- (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
- a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
- specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
verb
noun
- (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
name
- A programming language
- A rural municipality of Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A former unincorporated community and neighborhood of Washington County, Oregon, United States, in the cities of Tigard and Beaverton.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States, lying in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton Township.
- An unincorporated community in Pike County, Mississippi, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana, United States.
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- (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
- (colloquial, offensive) A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
- (ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
- (linguistics, broad sense) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
- (derogatory) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
- (linguistics, strict sense) A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
verb
- (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
- (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
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noun
- (uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.
- (countable) A particular belief within a religion.
- (uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
- (countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
- (uncountable) Synonym of religious studies.
- a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
- the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
- the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
noun
- (computing) A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
- (music) A list of the stops found on a particular organ.
- (media) A list of people who subscribed to a publication (e.g. newspaper) but no longer wish to receive it.
adj
- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- hard or impossible to understand
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
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adj
- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- continually recurring to the mind
- retained; not shed
noun
- (programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
- Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).
- Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
- An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
- a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction
- a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted
- anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
- the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
- the sum of recognized accomplishments
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
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- (transitive) To make a record of information.
- (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
- (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- register electronically
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- be aware of
noun
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
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- (mathematics, computing theory) Incapable of being algorithmically decided in finite time. For example, a set of strings is undecidable if it is impossible to program a computer (even one with infinite memory) to determine whether or not specified strings are included.
- (mathematics) (of a WFF) logically independent from the axioms of a given theory; i.e., that it can never be either proved or disproved (i.e., have its negation proved) on the basis of the axioms of the given theory. (Note: this latter definition is independent of any time bounds or computability issues, i.e., more Platonic.)
- not capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system
noun
- (computer science, uncountable) A contiguous collection of one or more characters that each represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
- (business) Free time seen as an opportunity for gainful activity.
- White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
noun
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
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- (programming, of a function) Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.
- (chemistry) Relating to a compound that can crystallizes into two or more distinct forms (e.g. carbon, which can crystalize into coal, graphite, diamond, etc.)
- Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.
- relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population
- having or occurring in several distinct forms
- relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms
noun
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- A member of a primitive society.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
- (programming) A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
- (genetics) A different sequence of a gene (locus).
- (linguistics, lexicography) One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
- Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
- a variable quantity that is random
- an event that departs from expectations
- something a little different from others of the same type
- (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups
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- (programming, data structures) A data structure that represents multiple text strings.
- (physics, string theory) One of Multiple simultaneously vibrating strings.
- (CAD) A component of a model representing multiple parallel strings or lines.
- A musical instrument designed to have multiple strings played simultaneously.
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- (computing) Data that are misinterpreted as another kind of data.
- A place or receptacle for waste material.
- Food waste material of any kind.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Specifically, waste material destined not to be reclaimed through recycling, composting, etc.
- (computing) Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- Something or someone worthless.
- Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind.
- (sports, slang, Canada, US, attributive) An easy shot.
- a worthless message
- food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)
- a receptacle where waste can be discarded
adj
noun
- (programming) A data structure that has the semantics of an array of arrays, all of which may be indexed with values of any data type, usually with a supporting syntax built-into a programming language.
- (programming) A data structure consisting of a vector of vectors, in the case of a 2-dimensional array, or, in the case of an N-dimensional array, a vector of multidimensional arrays of degree N minus 1, thereby allowing the simulation of a N-dimensional grid of storage locations using an underlying memory architecture in which storage is addressed in a linear fashion.
- (programming) Any abstraction, usually a memory-resident data structure, that addresses storage locations via an N-dimensional coordinate space.
noun
- (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
- A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
- A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.
- That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
- The placement of interest or worry on a subject.
- The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
- something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness
- a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it
- an anxious feeling
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- something that interests you because it is important or affects you
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- (computing, uncountable) The alteration of computer code to preserve its behavior while concealing its structure and intent.
- (uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating, or obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
- (countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
- (uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
- darkening or obscuring the sight of something
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
noun
- (programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.
- By synecdoche: a codeword, code point, an encoded representation of a character, symbol, or other entity.
- A short textual designation, often with little relation to the item it represents.
- Any system of principles, rules or regulations relating to one subject.
- Alternative form of cod.
- (cryptography) A cryptographic system using a codebook that converts words or phrases into codewords.
- A message represented by rules intended to conceal its meaning.
- (scientific programming) A program.
- (linguistics) A particular lect or language variety.
- A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
- A set of rules for converting information into another form or representation.
- (medicine) An emergency requiring situation-trained members of the staff.
- (informal) A set of unwritten rules that bind a social group.
- (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
- a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
- a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy
- a series of letters, numbers or symbols assigned to something for the purpose of classification or identification
verb
- To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes.
- (transitive) To add codes to (a data set).
- (cryptography) To encode.
- (informal, healthcare) To call a hospital emergency code.
- (genetics, intransitive) To encode a protein.
- (informal, healthcare) Of a patient, to suffer a sudden medical emergency (a code blue) such as cardiac arrest.
- (computing) To write software programs.
- attach a code to
- convert ordinary language into code
noun
- (programming) A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
- A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
- The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
- A list; especially, a numbered list.
- A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
- a numbered list
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
noun
- (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may be retrieved using numeric indices.
- A group of hedgehogs.
- Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
- Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.
- A large collection.
- A microarray.
- (military) A militia.
- An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
- (law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
- (mathematics) A matrix.
- A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
- an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics
- an orderly arrangement
- especially fine or decorative clothing
- an impressive display
verb
- To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
- To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
- (law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
- lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line
- align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
noun
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
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- (uncountable, programming) Initialism of return-oriented programming.
- (uncountable, advertising) Initialism of run of press.
- (ophthalmology) Initialism of retinopathy of prematurity.
- (uncountable, advertising) Initialism of run of paper.
- (countable, computer graphics) A Render Output unit or raster operations pipeline.
noun
- (computing) Any unreferenced object.
- (figuratively) Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.
- A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.
- A young animal with no mother.
- A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.
- (typography) A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.
- someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision
- a young animal without a mother
- a child who has lost both parents
- the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column
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- (computing, uncountable) The state of not retaining data in the absence of power.
- (uncountable) The state of being unpredictable.
- The state of being volatile.
- (uncountable) The state of being able to fly.
- (finance, countable) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product.
- (uncountable) The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily.
- being easily excited
- the trait of being unpredictably irresolute
- the property of changing readily from a solid or liquid to a vapor
noun
- (computing, programming) A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (in the plural, military, historical) The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
verb
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
- (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- cause to lean to the side
- tilt to one side
- include in a list
- enumerate
noun
- (programming) The act of converting between data types.
- (countable) An object made in a mold.
- The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc.
- A manufacturing process using a mold.
- The excreta of an earthworm or similar creature.
- (hunting) Of hounds, the act of spreading out and searching for a scent.
- The regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks, to clean and empty their crops.^([W])
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- object formed by a mold
- the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie
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- (programming) Initialism of abstract data type.
- (traffic information) Initialism of Average Daily Traffic.
- (military) Initialism of ative duty tour.
- (programming) Initialism of algebraic data type.
- (medicine) Initialism of androgen deprivation therapy.
- (computing) Initialism of acknowledged data transfer.
- (military) Initialism of active duty for training.
- (healthcare) Initialism of admissions, discharge, transfer.
- (military, weaponry) Initialism of Active Denial Technology.
- Abbreviation of Adult.
- (military) Initialism of accumulated deployed time.
- (hiking) Initialism of American Discovery Trail.
- (computing) Initialism of advanced DRAM technology.
- (audio recording) Initialism of Automatic Double Tracking.
- (research) Initialism of accelerated degradation testing.
- (astronomy education) Initialism of astronomy diagnostic test.
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- (uncountable) A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- (countable) A language characteristic of a particular group.
- (uncountable) Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
- a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon
- specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
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noun
- (uncountable, countable) A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
- (uncountable) The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
- (countable) A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
- a technical system of symbols used to represent special things
- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- a comment or instruction (usually added)
noun
- (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
- (colloquial, offensive) A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.
- (ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
- (linguistics, broad sense) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.
- (derogatory) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
- (linguistics, strict sense) A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
noun
- (uncountable, computing, slang) Subjective marginal details.
- (countable) A particular belief within a religion.
- (uncountable) The study of God, a god, or gods; and of the truthfulness of religion in general.
- (countable) An organized method of interpreting spiritual works and beliefs into practical form.
- (uncountable) Synonym of religious studies.
- a particular system or school of religious beliefs and teachings
- the learned profession acquired by specialized courses in religion (usually taught at a college or seminary)
- the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
noun
- (computing) A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
- (music) A list of the stops found on a particular organ.
- (media) A list of people who subscribed to a publication (e.g. newspaper) but no longer wish to receive it.
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- (programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.
- Ellipsis of phonograph record (“a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph”).
- Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.
- An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.
- (computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.
- The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.
- a document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction
- a list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted
- anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events
- the number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had
- the sum of recognized accomplishments
- a compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone
- sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
- an extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To make a record of information.
- (transitive, law) To give legal status to by making an official public record.
- (transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.
- (intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.
- (intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- register electronically
- make a record of; set down in permanent form
- be aware of
noun
- (computing) A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.
- (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.
- A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
- (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
- Something serving as an expression of something else.
- (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.
- (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.
- (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
- (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
- (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.
- A keepsake.
- (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
- Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.
- (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
- A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a form of currency; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.
- Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.
- (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
- An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.
- A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement; a formality.
- A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a board game or other situation.
- (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sent one of these with each corf or tub he had hewn.
- A tally.
- A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
- An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.
- an individual instance of a type of symbol
- something of sentimental value
- a metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines
- something serving as a sign of something else
adj
- (of people) Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or illusion of diversity, especially ethnic or gender diversity.
- Perfunctory or merely symbolic; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
- Done as an indication or a pledge.
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)
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noun
- (computer science, uncountable) A contiguous collection of one or more characters that each represents horizontal or vertical space in typography.
- (business) Free time seen as an opportunity for gainful activity.
- White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).
noun
- (countable, programming) A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- (countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
- (historical) An affiliation of several parishes for joint support and management of their poor; also the jointly-owned workhouse.
- (countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
- (countable) The act or state of marriage.
- (countable) An association of students at a university for social and/or political purposes; also in some cases a debating body.
- (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
- (countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
- (countable) Something united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
- (uncountable) The state of being united or joined; a state of unity or harmony.
- the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes
- healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones
- a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner)
- an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- the act of making or becoming a single unit
- the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations
- the state of being joined or united or linked
- the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts
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- (transitive, computing, informal) To transform data in an undefined or unexplained manner, as for example when data wrangling requires nonsystemic or nonsystematic edits.
- (transitive, genealogy, informal) To corrupt a record about a person by erroneously merging in information about another person.
- (transitive, computing, informal) To add a spamblock to (an email address).
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adj
- (programming) Being a literal number or string value with no meaning or context, not defined as a constant or variable
- Producing extraordinary results, as though through the use of magic.
- (physics) Describing the number of nucleons in a particularly stable isotopic nucleus; 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, 126, and 184.
- (colloquial) Great; excellent.
- Having supernatural talents, properties or qualities attributed to magic.
- Pertaining to conjuring tricks or illusions performed for entertainment etc.
- possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers
noun
- (gaming, countable) The ability to cast a magic spell.
- (computing, slang) Complicated or esoteric code that is not expected to be generally understood.
- (countable) One such conjuring trick or illusion.
- Something producing successful and remarkable results, especially when not fully understood; an enchanting quality; exceptional skill.
- (entertainment) The art or practice of performing conjuring tricks and illusions to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers.
- (rare, countable) A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability.
- The supernatural forces which are drawn on in such a ritual.
- The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them.
- any art that invokes supernatural powers
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
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- (computing) Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- (figuratively) Obtuse, stupid.
- (figuratively) Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
- hard or impossible to understand
- not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight
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- (computing) Of data or a data structure: not transient or temporary, but remaining in existence after the termination of the program that creates it.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes, of a state) non-transient.
- (botany) Lasting past maturity without falling off.
- Insistently repetitive.
- Obstinately refusing to give up or let go.
- Indefinitely continuous.
- (mathematics) Describing a fractal process that has a positive Brown function
- stubbornly unyielding
- never-ceasing
- continually recurring to the mind
- retained; not shed
adj
- (mathematics, computing theory) Incapable of being algorithmically decided in finite time. For example, a set of strings is undecidable if it is impossible to program a computer (even one with infinite memory) to determine whether or not specified strings are included.
- (mathematics) (of a WFF) logically independent from the axioms of a given theory; i.e., that it can never be either proved or disproved (i.e., have its negation proved) on the basis of the axioms of the given theory. (Note: this latter definition is independent of any time bounds or computability issues, i.e., more Platonic.)
- not capable of being decided as following or not following from the axioms of a logical system
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- (programming, of a function) Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.
- (chemistry) Relating to a compound that can crystallizes into two or more distinct forms (e.g. carbon, which can crystalize into coal, graphite, diamond, etc.)
- Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.
- relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population
- having or occurring in several distinct forms
- relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms