extern
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Is extern a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete, rare) External; outward; not inherentExamples: "Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, / But seeming so, for my particular end, / For when my outward action doth demonstrate / The native act and figure of my heart / In complement extern, 'tis not long after / But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at."; "For if the ſoul of man vvere emancipated by virtue, it vvould not need any regulation or monition, beſides that of its invvard Tribunal; vvhich becauſe ſin does uſurp upon, has ſome relief from thoſe extern adjuments."obsoleterare
noun (English)
1. (programming) In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.Examples: "Finally, get rid of the two function declarations and two externs that we added at the top of TEFIL.CPP so that we could support file_open()."; "This is probably the big thing with C++, the more you can avoid global concepts and nasty externs the better, an object/class should be totally self-contained."
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