extern
/ˈɛkˌstɜː(ɹ)n/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.94 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
noun
A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
noun
In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.
Example Sentences
- "Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, / But seeming so, for my particular end, / For when my outward action doth demonstrate / The native act and figure of my heart / In complement extern, 'tis not long after / But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at."
- "For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments."
- "Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open()."
- "This is probably the big thing with C++, the more you can avoid global concepts and nasty externs the better, an object/class should be totally self-contained."