Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

narrowing conversion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables: nar-row-ing -con-ver-sion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A conversion from one data type to another where the new data type’s size is smaller than the old one’s, such that the conversion may result in loss of information.

Inflected Forms

narrowing conversions (plural)

Antonyms

widening conversion

Questions

What does narrowing conversion mean?: A conversion from one data type to another where the new data type’s size is smaller than the old one’s, such that the conversion may result in loss of information.

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