introspection
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- noun
- /ˌɪntrəˈspɛkʃən/
- Specialized
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introspección
- The software's introspection feature allows developers to analyze its internal structures and capabilities.
Examples
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This would, I think, lead to a quite implausible account of ordinary knowledge of your own thoughts on which you had, as it were, a "double awareness" of their contents, once as the contents known by introspection, and once as the contents of the efferent copies.
Academic text (1999) -
I would have liked to be able to choose object introspection at runtime, object introspection at compile time (because SFINAE is still a hack), better integration of SIMD, concepts, and a unified ABI between the compilers...
Blog text (10) -
You have knowledge of the content of the thought only through introspection.
Academic text (1999) -
We cannot know how the brain works, much less where it came from, by introspection and the sampling of our own emotions during visionary revelation.
Academic text (1999) -
Moreover, on this account, it is the match between the thought detected by introspection and the content of the efferent copy picked up by the comparator that is responsible for the sense of ownership of the thought.
Academic text (1999) -
As for the breakpoints and object introspection (and expressions), you can do all that with the Chrome debugger (and there are similar tools for Firefox).
Blog text (17) -
Andreia did a lot of work on a new system to generate C# bindings using the information provided by GObject introspection, which should make it easier to have bindings for lots of libraries.
Blog text (12) -
I would have liked to be able to choose object introspection at runtime, object introspection at compile time (because SFINAE is still a hack), better integration of SIMD, concepts, and a unified ABI between the compilers...
Blog text (10) -
By enabling introspection, the API can provide insights into available methods and properties in real-time.
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With enhanced introspection, programmers can efficiently discover the functionalities offered by the toolkit.
Synonyms
Ability of a computer or robot to check its own work and find errors
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
introspection = introspect (semi-transparent) = introspect + ion
Morphologically a straightforward nominalization of 'introspect' using '-ion'.
Etymology
Introspection in computing comes from the parts intro- 'in' and spect 'to look', just like in inspect. So in technology it means a program or system 'looks inside' itself to find its parts and information.