[kuh
n-struhk-ter] 
| 1. | a person or thing that builds. |
| 2. | a person or company engaged in the construction business. |
| 3. | a person who devises crossword puzzles. |
| con·struct (kən-strŭkt') tr.v. con·struct·ed, con·struct·ing, con·structs
[Latin cōnstruere, cōnstrūct- : com-, com- + struere, to pile up; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots.] con·struct'i·ble adj., con·struc'tor, con·struct'er n. |
constructor programming
1. In functional programming and type theory, one of the symbols used to create an object with an algebraic data type.
2. A function provided by a class in C++ and some other object-oriented languages to instantiate an object, i.e. to name it and initialise it. The constructor function has the same name as the class. A class may also have a destructor function to destroy objects of that class.
(1994-10-20)