templatize

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/ˈtɛm.pləˌtaɪz/

verb

To convert into a template or to represent by means of a template, for purposes of genericizing, automating, tracking, etc.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

verbtemplatize (third-person singular simple present templatizes, present participle templatizing, simple past and past participle templatized)

present singular third person templatizes · participle present templatizing · participle past templatized · past templatized · alternative UK templatise

  1. especiallytransitivecomputingTo convert into a template or to represent by means of a template, for purposes of genericizing, automating, tracking, etc.

    For our final look at metaprogramming, we templatize matrix multiplication.

    2000, Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems
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    To ensure a professional-looking product and fewer hassles, take the first step and 'templatize' your pattern pieces.

    1979 November 12, Kathy Faryon, “Patchwork Quilting”, in Edmonton Journal, →ISSN, page B6

    We must templatize the engine with the base types of the two arguments (left-hand side and right-hand side).

    2001, Andrei Alexandrescu, Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied

    This makes it trivial to templatize your application; changes to the new generic base form automatically cascade to the derived classes at the next build.

    2004, Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland, Windows Forms programming in Visual Basic.NET

    An iterator is a generalization of a pointer and we could templatize the code to work off any iterator.

    2008, Mark S Joshi, C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing

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Chicago

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