post-increment

noun

An increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented.

OriginEnglish increment ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

nounpost-increment (plural post-increments)

plural post-increments

  1. computingAn increment operation that takes place after evaluation of the expression that contains the variable being incremented.
verbpost-increment (third-person singular simple present post-increments, present participle post-incrementing, simple past and past participle post-incremented)

present singular third person post-increments · participle present post-incrementing · participle past post-incremented · past post-incremented

  1. transitivecomputingTo perform such an operation upon.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishincrement
  8. Englishpost-increment

From post- + increment.

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Chicago

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