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abstract_data_type

abstract data type

English

Alternative forms

ADT

Noun

abstract data type ‎(plural abstract data types)

(programming) A data type defined only by data properties and operations to be performed on the data without any specification as to how the data will be represented or the operations performed.

Translations

data type defined only by data properties and operations

French: type abstrait de données (fr) m
Hungarian: absztrakt adattípus (hu)

Icelandic: hugræn gagnagerð f, hugræn gagnategund f, hugrænt gagnatag n

References

“abstract data type” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, ISBN 978-0-7381-6205-8, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835