primitive type
noun1
Computer, Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Science, Sciences Idiomatic A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
- Holonym: type system
- Although assembly language has no primitive types in the way that high-level languages do, assemblers do provide directives to allocate and interpret blocks of memory in specific, low-level ways, highly dependent on the target processor architecture, which programmers can think of as being effectively like primitive types.
2
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see primitive, type: a crude, simplistic, and/or early kind (of a device or physical system).
- The television that existed in the 1920s was of a primitive type, but it paved the way for what would come later.