ur-type

ur-type

English

Alternative forms

• urtype

Etymology

From ur- (“original”) +‎ type.

Noun

ur-type (plural ur-types)

1. A basic, primitive, or original type; prototype.
   • 2003, Cliff Binstock, The XML Schema Complete Reference:

     The simple ur-type is the value of the primitive type definition and base type definition properties of a simple type if—and only ... No simple types not defined in the Schema Recommendation may be directly derived from the simple ur-type.

   • 2004, Richard Monson-Haefel, J2EE Web services:

     The array in the following example is of type ur-type, which is the base type of all the other XML schema types. The ur-type is analogous to the Object type in Java.

Anagrams

• putery