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Template
Definition 2024
template
template
- For templates on Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Templates.
English
Noun
template (plural templates)
- A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.
- A generic model or pattern from which other objects are based or derived.
- (molecular biology) A macromolecule which provides a pattern for the synthesis of another molecule.
- (object-oriented programming) A partially defined class, that can be instantiated in a variety of ways depending on the instantiation arguments.
- A template is a blueprint or formula for creating a generic class or a function. “C++ Templates”, in tutorialspoint, 2016
Translations
physical object
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generic model
molecular biology
See also
- boilerplate
- macro
- stencil
- cookie cutter
- Wiktionary:Templates
Verb
template (third-person singular simple present templates, present participle templating, simple past and past participle templated)
- To set up or mark off using a template.
- 1994, Howard I. Chapelle, Boatbuilding, ISBN 0393035549, page 368:
- Only that part of the floor timber that bears on the planking and keel need be templated; […]
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- To provide a template or pattern for.
- 2003, Yu Wang et al., “Synthesis and characterization of a new layered gallium phosphate templated by cobalt complex”, in Journal of Solid State Chemistry, volume 170, number 1, DOI: :
- Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.
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