Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

second-class object

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables: sec-ond--class ob-ject
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An entity of which the value can be passed as a parameter, but that can neither be returned from a function, nor be assigned to a variable. (Used by Raphael Finkel, the first-class object does not need to have run-time constructability according to his definition.)

Inflected Forms

second-class objects (plural)

Phrases

first-class object third-class object

Frequently Paired Words

first-class object third-class object

Synonyms

second-class citizen second-class entity second-class value

Questions

What does second-class object mean?: An entity of which the value can be passed as a parameter, but that can neither be returned from a function, nor be assigned to a variable. (Used by Raphael Finkel, the first-class object does not need to have run-time constructability according to his definition.)

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