Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bottom type

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English

Syllables: bot-tom -type
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The type that is a subtype of all other types.

Example Sentences

"A new notion to many Java developers will be the idea that a class hierarchy can have common bottom types. These are types that are subtypes of all types. Scala's types Null and Nothing are both bottom types."

Inflected Forms

bottom types (plural)

Questions

What does bottom type mean?: The type that is a subtype of all other types.

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