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post-increment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.96 in modern English

Syllables
post-in-cre-ment
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented.

verb

To perform such an operation upon.

Transitive verb

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English increment English post-increment From post- + increment.

Usage

Inflected Forms

post-increments (plural) post-increments (present, singular) post-incrementing (participle, present) post-incremented (participle, past) post-incremented (past)

Questions

What does post-increment mean?
An increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented.
Where does post-increment come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English increment English post-increment From post- + increment.

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