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integer Definition

in·te·ger (intə jər)

noun

  1. anything complete in itself; entity; whole
  2. any positive or negative whole number or zero

Etymology: L, untouched, whole, entire < in-, not + base of tangere, to touch: see tact

integer Synonyms

integer

n.

integral, whole number, individual, entity; see number 1, whole.

integer Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • convert: When converting a larger size integer to a smaller size integer, only the less significant bytes are moved.
  • sign: Generally, this is false for floating types, true for unsigned integers, and true for signed integers on most machines.

Adjective modifier

  • non-negative: This is the most common format in which we store non-negative integers with present-day computers.
  • nonnegative: The expression may contain variables of the form " { i } " where i is a nonnegative integer.
  • unsigned: The corresponding argument is a pointer to an unsigned integer.
  • 32-bit: The modifiers of the field written as an 32-bit integer.
  • 16-bit: The numbers n can be negative or positive 16-bit integers.
  • 64-bit: An unsigned long long type is treated as an unsigned long type ( unsigned 64-bit integer ).

Modifies a noun

  • arithmetic: Integer arithmetic within the decoders does not work, due to the algorithms used.
  • overflow: The integer overflow problem came to our attention shortly thereafter.
  • operand: For integer operands, OR performs a bitwise inclusive " or " operation and returns the result.
  • n: The optional integer n is a number from 1 to 10, inclusive, indicating the desired level of detail of information.
  • pixel: In this case, the internal form is an integer pixel value that is valid only for a particular screen.
  • array: Image A byte or integer array of either two or three dimensions, containing the image to be written.

Noun used with modifier

  • longword: ULONG Set this keyword to return an unsigned longword integer array.
  • arbitrary-precision: To quote the first paragraph of the API documentation: Immutable arbitrary-precision integers.
  • hexadecimal: All values in a trace are either hexadecimal integers or strings.
  • octal: Note the way that decimal and octal integers are read in by grammar rules.
  • decimal: The skip argument is normally interpreted as a posi- tive decimal integer.
  • byte: The two operands are internally converted to 4 byte integers before the OR operation.