📖 Definitions of "Polytype"
noun
- 1
Any of the types involved in polytypism.
"Orthochrysotile is a polytype of chrysotile."
- 2
A cast, or facsimile copy, of an engraved block, matter in type, etc.
- 3
In the Hindley–Milner type system, a data type containing variables bound by one or more ∀ (for-all) quantifiers.
verb
- 1
To produce a polytype of.
"to polytype an engraving"
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