Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

negative indexing

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: neg-a-tive in-dex-ing
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The use of a negative integer as an array offset to access from the end of the array. Array[-3] accesses the 3ʳᵈ element from the end of the array, the same as Array[ArraySize - 3].

Uncountable

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

array

Questions

What does negative indexing mean?: The use of a negative integer as an array offset to access from the end of the array. Array[-3] accesses the 3ʳᵈ element from the end of the array, the same as Array[ArraySize - 3].

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