Definition
A data type provided by a programming language as a basic building block, such as integer, character or Boolean.
In Context
- "Holonym: type system"
- "Although assembly language has no primitive types in the way that high-level languages do, assemblers do provide directives to allocate and interpret blocks of memory in specific, low-level ways, highly dependent on the target processor architecture, which programmers can think of as being effectively like primitive types."
Opposite In Meaning
- composite type