English Explanatory Dictionary

destructor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. One who destructs.
  2. A furnace or oven for the burning or carbonizing of refuse.
  3. A function that runs when an object is no longer required, used to release any resources that it was using.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-destructor.wav

Word forms

destructor destructors

Etymology

From destruct + -or.

Antonyms

constructor

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 析構函數 /析构函数 Czech: destruktor Finnish: destruktori Finnish: hajotin Finnish: purkaja French: destructeur German: Destruktor Japanese: デストラクタ Japanese: 消去子 Polish: destruktor Portuguese: destrutor Russian: дестру́ктор Spanish: destructor Vietnamese: hàm huỷ
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