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
An HDF5 Data Type is an object that describes the type of the element in an HDF5 multi-dimensional array There are two categories of datatypes: atomic and compound data types An atomic type is a type which cannot be decomposed into smaller units at the API level A compound is a collection of one or more atomic types or small arrays of such types
A categorization of values, operations and arguments, typically covering both behavior and representation (e g , the traditional non-OO programming language notion of type) [OMG]
Each attribute has a data type that specifies what kind of data will be stored and the size, if appropriate The default type is text with a default size of 50 bytes Data types include: text, currency, integer, date/time, auto number and memo
The characteristic of a field that determines what type of data it can hold Data types include Boolean, Integer, Long, Currency, Single, Double, Date, String, and Variant (default)
A set of related values and associated operations Each variable has a data type that specifies the kind of values that can be stored in it as well as the types of operations that can be performed on it In some languages these can also be programmer specified In JavaTM objects must be used to simulate new data types
The data types in Erlang are numbers, atoms, tuples, lists, pids, funs, records, ports, references and binaries The values of Erlang data types can be stored in variables
(n ) a named category of data that is characterized by a set of values, together with a way to denote those values and a collection of operations that interpret and manipulate the values For an intrinsic data type, the set of data values depends on the values of the type parameters
A mechanism that associates particular data files with the appropriate applications and actions Data types can determine the type of a file based on file-naming conventions, such as a particular extension name, or on the contents of the file
A set of rules describing a specific set of information, including the allowed range and operations and how information is stored Data types in Visual Basic include Integer, String, Boolean, and Variant
There are eight primitive data types in Java; five of these represent numerical types of varying range and precision - double, float, int, long and short The remaining three are used to representing single-bit values (boolean), single byte values (byte) and two-byte characters from the ISO Unicode character set (char)
This defines the structure of a data item This in turn determines the range of values it can take and the range of operations that can be applied to it Integer, real and and character string are examples of data type Some modern programming languages allow user-defined types
mmCIF uses regular expressions to define the patterns which must be matched by each data value The mmCIF dictionary contains a list of the regular expressions describing each data type in the category ITEM_TYPE_LIST Each mmCIF definition contains a reference to one of these regular expressions
NCL: A data type is a representation of data that defines a size and valid range for numerical data or provides a reference to a file or HLU graphical object
the characteristics of the data used These may differ for each type of system Typical data types are: character, number (integer, real), graphic, logic (boolean), date