Definition of p-type in English English dictionary
- in which conduction is due to the movement of positive holes rather than electrons
- p-type semiconductor
- a semiconductor in which electrical conduction is due chiefly to the movement of positive holes
- A-type conflict
- disagreement that focuses on individual- or personally-oriented issues
- Pele-type
- Describing an eruption or volcano similar to that of Pele on Io (the moon of Jupiter)
- Prometheus-type
- Describing an eruption or volcano similar to those on Prometheus (the moon of Saturn)
- blood type
- A classification of blood that is based on the presence or absence of antigens in the red blood cells of an individual. For the purposes of blood transfusion three antigens referred to as "A", "B" and "RhD" (out of a total of 29) are the most important. Based on their presence the human blood can be classified to A, AB, B, and O blood types which are further divided to Rh positive or negative
- blood-type
- Attributive form of blood type, noun
The blood bank needs blood-type data on all donors.
- built-in type
- A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean, but in some languages also list, hash table or first class function
- composite type
- A datatype that can be constructed in a programming language out of that language's primitive types and other composite types; exemplified by array, structure, and class
- constitutional type
- A classification of individuals based on physical characteristics or body constitution or on an asserted relationship between physical characteristics and a tendency to either suffer from a disease or have other characteristics
- data type
- 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
- early-type star
- a star of spectral type O, B, A, or F0 to F5
- late-type star
- a star of spectral type K or M
- leaded type
- Printed type which is set with extra leading in such a way as to make the text appear with greater emphasis
A thousand editors have screamed in leaded type that it were worse for the wealthy to hoard than waste. (Wm. Cowper Brann, Brann The Iconoclast Vol. 1, published 1919).
- leaded type
- Printed type in general, as opposed to engravings or handwritten documents
There, in leaded type, was the article before him. It seemed, somehow, much more important on the printed page than it had looked in the proof. (Robert Barr, A Woman Intervenes, 1896).
- n-type
- in which conduction is due to the movement of electrons rather than positive holes
- primitive type
- A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean
- solar-type
- Having similar characteristics to those of the Sun
- spectral type
- an indication of the physical and chemical characteristics of a star based on the spectrum of light that it emits
- touch-type
- To type with a keyboard or typewriter while not looking at it
- type
- To determine the blood type
The doctor ordered the lab to type the patient for a blood transfusion.
- type
- An individual considered representative of members of its taxonomic group
the type of a genus, family, etc.
- type
- A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block
set in bold type.
- type
- To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard
- type
- A tag attached to variables and values used in determining what values may be assigned to what variables
- type
- A blood group
- type
- A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class
- type
- An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment
- type
- To put text on paper using a typewriter
- type
- An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly Old Testament events linked to Christian times
- type I error
- Rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is true
- type I errors
- plural form of type I error
- type II error
- Accepting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is false
- type II errors
- plural form of type II error
- type collection
- A collection from which the original concept of a taxonomic group was described
- type collections
- plural form of type collection
- type design
- The art of designing typefaces
- type foundry
- A company that designs and/or distributes typefaces
- type localities
- plural form of type locality
- type locality
- The location where a nomenclatural or name-bearing type was collected
- type locality
- The location, usually where the first specimen was discovered, considered most representative of a mineral, formation etc
- type metal
- A metal alloy that is used in traditional typefounding and mechanical typesetting
- type safety
- the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors
- type species
- A species which has been designated as typical of a genus, and is chosen as the species according to which the genus is named
The type species is E. lucius, the northern pike. The species of this genus are known as the pike. (Wikipedia article on Esox).
- type system
- A way programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact
- type systems
- plural form of type system
- type-founder
- A manufacturer of metal type for printing
- type-in
- A program listing, published in a magazine, etc., to be typed and run by the reader
The quality of the type-ins were sic] a cut above the ones found in rival magazines.
- type-safe
- Not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type
Narrow performs a type-safe conversion into an instance of a subclass.''.
- wild type
- The typical form of an organism, strain, gene or characteristic as it occurs in nature
- wild-type
- Alternative spelling of wild type
- type
- {i} sort; kind; printed letters; form, model
- type
- {f} input text using a keyboard; classify, determine the type of something (esp. blood); typify, exemplify; foreshadow
- type out
- If you type something out, you write it in full using a typewriter or word processor. The two of us stood by while two typists typed out the whole document again I read it down the phone to a man called Dave, who typed it out. = type
- type
- {n} an emblem, token, stamp, printing-letter