autoboxed

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adjective

Automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).

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Meanings

adjectiveautoboxed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobject-oriented programmingAutomatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).

    The error indicates that we cannot typecast and modify data of an autoboxed variable.

    2006, Christian Gross, How to code .NET, page 38
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    In the second statement the value 85.1 is autoboxed in order to conform to the type of Double.

    2006, David D. Riley, The object of Java, page 484

Origin

From auto- + boxed.

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APA

autoboxed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoboxed

MLA

“autoboxed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoboxed. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “autoboxed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/autoboxed.

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