expando

English

Etymology

Perhaps a short form of expandable object.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ændəʊ

Noun

expando (plural expandos)

  1. (programming) A property added to an object at run-time.
    • 2009, Ted Pattison, Daniel Larson, Inside Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0:
      Because JavaScript objects are not constrained to predefined interfaces as they are with .NET objects, you can set expando properties on any object.
    • 2010, Alexei White, JavaScript Programmer's Reference:
      I talk more about expandos in Chapter 10. This means that you can arbitrarily add new properties to an object whenever you want.

See also

Latin

Etymology

From ex- (out) +‎ pandō (spread).

Pronunciation

Verb

expandō (present infinitive expandere, perfect active expandī, supine expānsum or expassum); third conjugation

  1. to spread something out
  2. to expand
  3. to explain

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Asturian: espander

References

  • expando”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • expando in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃du

Verb

expando

  1. first-person singular present indicative of expandir

Spanish

Verb

expando

  1. first-person singular present indicative of expandir