plural of type-in

A metal alloy used in making types for traditional typefounding and mechanical typesetting. It consists essentially of lead and antimony, often with a little tin, nickel, or copper.

(programming) A style of dynamic typing in which an object's current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics, rather than its inheritance from a particular class or implementation of a specific interface.

Producing typeset materials.

(object-oriented programming) The ability of a program to examine at run time the type or properties of an object.

plural of type introspection

A system of printing and typography that uses movable components such as individual letters or punctuation to reproduce the elements of a document.

(printing, historical) Type having the face of a larger or smaller size than the body.

(programming) The circumvention of the system of data types in a programming language in order to achieve an effect that would be difficult or impossible to achieve within the bounds of the formal language.

(computing theory) A parameterized type that does not depend on all of its type parameters.