Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forward declaration

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

Syllables: for-ward dec-la-ra-tion
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The declaration of an identifier before it is given a complete definition, so that the compiler can know its data type and memory size.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

forward declarations (plural)

Questions

What does forward declaration mean?: The declaration of an identifier before it is given a complete definition, so that the compiler can know its data type and memory size.

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