Autoboxing

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Automatic boxing, the implicit conversion of primitive data types to wrapper objects. uncountable

    "Autoboxing and unboxing are typically used for collections of primitives. Autoboxing involves the dynamic allocation of memory and initialization of an object for each primitive."

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"Autoboxing and unboxing are typically used for collections of primitives. Autoboxing involves the dynamic allocation of memory and initialization of an object for each primitive."

Etymology

From auto- + boxing.

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