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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

  1. adj Belonging to an early stage of development; basic or unrefined.
  2. noun (computing) A basic data type or simple building block from which more complex structures are made.

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