interop

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noun

interoperability

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Meanings

nouninterop (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputinginteroperability

    Using CLR types with classic C++ libraries is an example of C++ interop, which is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 12.

    2007, Gordon Hogenson, C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET, page 92
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    Generally, we will want to avoid doing heavy image processing in WPF without C++ interop because of performance issues. After all, we are looping through and applying operations to over 2 million pixels, 30 times a second!

    2017, Mansib Rahman, Beginning Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0, page 56

Origin

Shortening; compare op (“operation”).

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APA

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Chicago

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