"quaject" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: quajects [plural]
Etymology: Coined by Alexia Massalin, from object. Head templates: {{en-noun}} quaject (plural quajects)
  1. (computing theory) An object-like data structure containing both data and code (or pointers to code), typically used as an abstraction to manage self-modifying code. Wikipedia link: Alexia Massalin, quaject Categories (topical): Theory of computing

Inflected forms

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