polytype

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of the types involved in polytypism.

   Orthochrysotile is a polytype of chrysotile.

2. noun A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
3. noun In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ∀ (for-all) quantifiers.
4. verb To produce a polytype of.

   to polytype an engraving

Similar words

polytypy polytypism polyphylesis polytoky polychotomy polysemousness poly polylecty polytenization polyptote

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