abstract data type

English

Noun

abstract data type (plural abstract data types)

1. (programming) A data type defined only by data properties and operations to be performed on the data without any specification as to how the data will be represented or the operations performed.

   Synonym: ADT

   Coordinate term: algebraic data type

Translations

data type defined only by data properties and operations

• Esperanto: abstrakta datumtipo
• Finnish: abstrakti tietotyyppi
• French: type abstrait de données (fr) m
• German: abstrakter Datentyp m
• Greek: αφηρημένος τύπος δεδομένων (el) m (afiriménos týpos dedoménon)
• Hungarian: absztrakt adattípus (hu)
• Icelandic: hugræn gagnagerð f, hugræn gagnategund f, hugrænt gagnatag n

Further reading

• abstract data type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “abstract data type” in "Systems and software engineering—vocabulary", ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010(E), 15 December 2010, →ISBN, DOI 10.1109/IEEESTD.2010.5733835