C-string

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A woman's scanty undergarment resembling a G-string but having a curved (C-shaped) wire that runs between the buttocks.
  2. 2
    A C-style string.

    "We also said that C-strings are null terminated, so the C-string "Hello" has six characters even though only five are enclosed in double quotation marks."

  3. 3
    A string on a musical instrument tuned to the note C.

Synonyms

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c-style string

Example

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"We also said that C-strings are null terminated, so the C-string "Hello" has six characters even though only five are enclosed in double quotation marks."

Etymology

Blend of C + G-string.

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