"primitive type" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: primitive types [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} primitive type (plural primitive types)
  1. (computer science, idiomatic) A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean. Wikidata QID: Q1188648 Tags: idiomatic Hypernyms: data type, type Coordinate_terms: built-in type, abstract type, reference type, existential type, intersection type, linear type, union type
    Sense id: en-primitive_type-en-noun-en:Q1188648 Categories (other): Computer science, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Greek translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 68 32 Topics: computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, science, sciences
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system). Hypernyms: type Coordinate_terms: prototype, archetype
    Sense id: en-primitive_type-en-noun-en:literal Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 41 59 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 54 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (Translations): αρχέγονος τύπος δεδομένων (archégonos týpos dedoménon) [masculine] (Greek), αρχέγονος τύπος (archégonos týpos) [masculine] (Greek)
Disambiguation of 'Translations': 49 51

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