polytype

Any of the types involved in polytypism.

Noun

  1. Any of the types involved in polytypism.
    • Orthochrysotile is a polytype of chrysotile.
  2. A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
    • Towards the end of the eighteenth century , Professor Wilson of Glasgow , being engaged in a series of experiments for making etchings upon glass with fluoric acid for the purposes of art , thought it possible to make...
  3. In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ∀ (for-all) quantifiers.

    Coordinate Terms: monotype

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English type English polytype From poly- + type.

Forms

polytypes

Verb

  1. To produce a polytype of.
    • to polytype an engraving

Forms

polytypes polytyping polytyped