Ephemeron
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ephemeron is a noun meaning Something short-lived or transitory.
Meaning
Something short-lived or transitory.
More Meanings
- (programming) A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit an object to be kept alive by its finalizer.
Example Sentences
Ah!—so frail are we— So like the brief ephemeron that wheels Its momentary round, we scarce can weep Our own bereavements, ere we haste to share The clay with those we mourn.
Beyond type safety, OCaml has several features that closely interact with the garbage collector. These include weak references, finalisers, ephemerons, and lazy values, whose semantics will have to be preserved with the new GC so as to not break programs that use those features.
Word Forms
- ephemerons
- ephemera
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ephemeris, grass, emergence, advenement, issue, extance.
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