primitive type
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A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as…A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
Meaning
2 senses(idiomatic)A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
Holonym: type system
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system).
The television that existed in the 1920s was of a primitive type, but it paved the way for what would come later.
Forms
plural: primitive types| Singular | primitive type |
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