data type

See also: datatype

English

Alternative forms

• datatype

Noun

data type (plural data types)

2. (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.

   Hypernym: type (elliptically synonymous)

   Hyponyms: built-in type, primitive type, composite type, abstract type, abstract data type, algebraic data type, reference type, existential type, intersection type, linear type, union type

   Holonym: type system

Related terms

• database
• datafication
• datafy
• data structure

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
• Galician: tipo de dato
• 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
• Polish: typ danych 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