setter
- noun
- /ˈsɛtər/
- Specialized
- To update the user's email, I called the setter method in the class definition.
Examples
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How were they going to make the team if the setters couldn't set the ball right?
Fiction book (1998) -
So this calls the setter method to set the name.
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And then we run the setter function on this object, a right, Set name.
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Senior setter Hannah Clancy leads the Big West with 505 assists.
Blog text (6) -
Anderson, a setter and outside hitter, will play sand volleyball at Stetson next fall.
Blog text (12) -
Laying it all out on the line for the title, setter Katie Maher aced the Knights' serve-receive.
Blog text (14) -
Freshman Alexis Huntey continued to grow in her new role as starting setter, putting up 32 assists and 10 digs.
Blog text (33) -
In object-oriented programming, the setter method assigns a value to the object's property.
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The setter function enables you to modify an object's attributes easily.
Antonyms
Compounds
A dog from England with long silky white hair and spots that people use to hunt birds
A lifestyle of frequent travel to fashionable foreign places, often with luxury
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Setter comes from the verb set 'to put' and the ending -er 'one who'. In programming a setter is a small piece of code that 'sets' (puts) a value into an object's property, so the name simply describes its job.