Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

include guard

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables: in-clude -guard
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In C and C++, a preprocessor directive used in header files to prevent them from being included multiple times.

Inflected Forms

include guards (plural)

Synonyms

header guard macro guard

Questions

What does include guard mean?: In C and C++, a preprocessor directive used in header files to prevent them from being included multiple times.

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