primitive — meaning in English
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English meaning
- primitive adj Belonging to an early stage of development; basic or unrefined.
Senses
primitive is used for these senses in English:
- antiderivative (calculus) A function whose derivative is a given function; an indefinite integral
- primitive A member of a primitive society.
- primitive (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
primitive — full definition
- adj Belonging to an early stage of development; basic or unrefined.
- noun (computing) A basic data type or simple building block from which more complex structures are made.