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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

destructeur

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dɛstʁyktœʁ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Destructor/dɪˈstrʌk.tər/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #18500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le destructeur libère la mémoire allouée à l'objet."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A special member function in object-oriented programming that is executed automatically when an object is destroyed or goes out of scope.

    "The destructor frees the memory that was dynamically allocated during the object's lifetime."
  2. 2

    Something or someone that destroys or causes ruin.

    "Severe weather acts as a natural destructor of fragile coastal ecosystems."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'destructor', meaning a destroyer, originating from the verb 'destruere' (to pull down, demolish). In modern contexts, particularly programming, it has been adopted as a technical term for a function that destroys instances of classes.

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