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data type

data type

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A category that shows what kind of information a place in a program can hold, for example numbers or text
  • noun
  • /ˈdeɪtə taɪp/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tipo de datos
  • In programming, the data type of a variable determines what kind of values it can hold, such as integers or strings.
  • input data type
  • range of data types
  • multiple data types

So the like the data types and Tensorflow imply an optimization set.

Examples

  • Students gain valuable knowledge of such fundamental programming concepts as data types, compiling, linking, optimization, and static and dynamically shared libraries.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Why do we call them abstract data types rather than just data types?

  • So you might want to think about the the actual data type of these things.

  • Results are presented as a percentage of the original size of the given data type.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Promotion rules, which define how to perform an operation within a group of related data types, will be affected.

    Academic text (1999)

  • You can give it a description, data type, emails, user IDs.

  • For reference, the following are the data types that PSF/2 version 2.00 can detect:

    Academic text (1997)

  • Two major types of enhancement were required in the assembler: new instructions and new data types.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Deliverables: ER diagrams, descriptions of attributes, and data type definitions.

    Academic text (2005)

  • For operations on long (64-bit integer) data with float or double data types, the JIT generates native emulation code.

    Academic text (1999)

Surface Forms

data type singular
data types plural

Morphology

data + type

The meaning 'a category of data' is directly derivable from combining 'data' (information) with 'type' (a class or category); a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the class of information a variable can hold. This noun‑noun compositional pattern is regular in English and cross‑linguistically common, making the expression immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.

Etymology

Data type comes from the idea of putting different data into labeled boxes, where the label or type shows its 'kind'. In early computers and programs, choosing the right box told the machine how to treat the information, for example as a number or as words, so today data type means the category that tells a program how to store and use information.