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extern

/ˈɛk.ˌstɜː(ɹ)n/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A person affiliated with an institution in a lesser capacity, for example, as a non-resident or as a part-time affiliate.
  2. Outward form or part; exterior.
  3. External; outward; not inherent
  4. In the C and C++ programming languages, a variable that can be separately declared in many places, all of them referring to the same variable.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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