Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

objective-c

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English

Syllables: ob-jec-tive-c
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing to the C programming language, mainly used on Apple platforms.

Example Sentences

"In Objective-C, a protocol member can be declared optional, meaning that this member doesn't have to be implemented by the adopter, but it may be."

Synonyms

Obj-C ObjC

Questions

What does objective-c mean?: An object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing to the C programming language, mainly used on Apple platforms.

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