data type - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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data type (plural data types)

  1. (programming) A classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them.
    Hypernym: type (elliptically synonymous)
    Holonym: type system
    Hyponyms: built-in type, primitive type, composite type, abstract type, abstract data type, algebraic data type, reference type, existential type, intersection type, linear type, union type

classification or category of data