data type

See also: datatype

English

Alternative forms

• datatype

Noun

data type (plural data types)

1. (programming) A classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them.

   Hyponym: abstract data type

Translations

classification or category of data

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資料型別, 资料型别 (zīliào xíngbié), 數據類型, 数据类型 (shùjù lèixíng)

• Czech: datový typ m
• Finnish: tietotyyppi (fi)
• French: type de données m, type (fr) m
• German: Datentyp (de) m
• Greek: τύπος δεδομένων (el) m (týpos dedoménon)
• Hungarian: adattípus (hu)
• Icelandic: gagnatag n, gagnagerð f
• Japanese: データ型 (dēta gata)
• Norwegian: datatype m
• Portuguese: tipo de dado m
• Romanian: tip de date n, fel de date n
• Russian: тип да́нных m (tip dánnyx), тип (ru) m (tip)
• Spanish: tipo de dato m
• Swedish: datatyp c
• Turkish: veri tipi
• Vietnamese: loại dữ liệu

Further reading

• data type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia