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Meaning of polytype

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polytype

noun

Definitions

  1. Any of the types involved in polytypism.

    Example: Orthochrysotile is a polytype of chrysotile.

  2. A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.

  3. In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ∀ (for-all) quantifiers.

verb

Definitions

  1. To produce a polytype of.

    Example: to polytype an engraving