Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

subsubroutine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sub-sub-rou-tine
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A subroutine called from another subroutine.

Example Sentences

"Some programming languages even permit a subroutine to contain itself as a subsubroutine; a brain-twisting arrangement."
"...hierarchies of subroutines and subsubroutines were used by the programmers to simplify their own organization, introducing a series of levels of control..."
"The goal stack mechanism makes it simple to represent hierarchical procedures, where routines call subroutines, which in turn call subsubroutines..."

Etymology

From sub- + subroutine.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: sub

Inflected Forms

subsubroutines (plural)

Questions

What does subsubroutine mean?: A subroutine called from another subroutine.
Where does subsubroutine come from?: From sub- + subroutine.

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