primitive type
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system).
Example Sentences
- "Holonym: type system"
- "Although assembly language has no primitive types in the way that high-level languages do, assemblers do provide directives to allocate and interpret blocks of memory in specific, low-level ways, highly dependent on the target processor architecture, which programmers can think of as being effectively like primitive types."
- "The television that existed in the 1920s was of a primitive type, but it paved the way for what would come later."
Inflected Forms
Frequently Paired Words
built-in type
abstract type
reference type
existential type
intersection type
linear type
union type
prototype