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con·struc·tor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. builder, constructornoun

    someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building)

Wiktionary

  1. constructornoun

    A person who, or thing that constructs

  2. constructornoun

    A class method (in object-oriented programming) that creates and initializes each instance of an object

  3. constructornoun

    (motorsport) A company or individual who builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors , while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).

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  1. constructor

    A constructor is a special method in object-oriented programming that is used to initialize a newly created object. It is typically called automatically when an object is created and has the same name as the class in which it resides. Constructors can often take parameters to help set initial states for the object, but they can also be empty or 'default'. The primary purpose of constructors is to set up and establish appropriate settings or behaviours for the aspects of the object it constructs.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Constructornoun

    a constructer

  2. Etymology: [Cf. LL. constructor.]

Wikidata

  1. Constructor

    In object-oriented programming, a constructor in a class is a special type of subroutine called to create an object. It prepares the new object for use, often accepting parameters that the constructor uses to set member variables required for the object to reach a valid state. It is called a constructor because it constructs the values of data members of the class. A constructor resembles an instance method, but it differs from a method in that it has no explicit return type, it is not implicitly inherited and it usually has different rules for scope modifiers. Constructors often have the same name as the declaring class. They have the task of initializing the object's data members and of establishing the invariant of the class, failing if the invariant is invalid. A properly written constructor leaves the resulting object in a valid state. Immutable objects must be initialized in a constructor. Programmers also use the term constructor to denote one of the tags that wraps data in an algebraic data type. This is a different usage than in this article. Most languages allow overloading the constructor in that there can be more than one constructor for a class, with differing parameters. Some languages take consideration of some special types of constructors.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Constructor in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Constructor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

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