templatize
verb/ˈtɛm.pləˌtaɪz/
Etymology From template + -ize.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Especially To convert into a template or to represent by means of a template, for purposes of genericizing, automating, tracking, etc.
- To ensure a professional-looking product and fewer hassles, take the first step and 'templatize' your pattern pieces.1979 November 12, Kathy Faryon, “Patchwork Quilting”, in Edmonton Journal, →ISSN, page B6:
- For our final look at metaprogramming, we templatize matrix multiplication.2000, Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems:
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- We must templatize the engine with the base types of the two arguments (left-hand side and right-hand side).2001, Andrei Alexandrescu, Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied:
- This makes it trivial to templatize your application; changes to the new generic base form automatically cascade to the derived classes at the next build.2004, Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland, Windows Forms programming in Visual Basic.NET:
- An iterator is a generalization of a pointer and we could templatize the code to work off any iterator.2008, Mark S Joshi, C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing:
- Derived terms
- nontemplatized, templatizable, templatization