declaration

declaration

1. the ruling of a judge or court on a question of law, esp in the chancery division of the High Court

2. Law an unsworn statement of a witness admissible in evidence under certain conditions

3. Cricket the voluntary closure of an innings before all ten wickets have fallen

4. Contract bridge the final contract

5. Cards an announcement of points made after taking a trick, as in bezique

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declaration

[‚dek·lə′rā·shən]

(computer science)

declarative statement

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declaration

In programming, an instruction or statement that defines some type of program element (fields, variables, functions, arrays, etc.), as well as resources. Declarations do not generally create executable code. More often, they describe the structures in the program so that the compiler knows how to deal with them.

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