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undefined

adjective

  1. not defined
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English defined English undefined From un- + defined.

  1. Lacking a definition or value.

    We slid into our office, past two women discussing the "X factor," an apparently undefined quality their firm felt they lacked.

  2. That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.

    The result of division by zero is undefined.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English defined English undefined From un- + defined.

  1. An undefined value.

    [Option:] · [PDP11:] F [BSD:] · [XE 2.3:] [1] [XE 3.0:] · [SIII:] · [COFF:] · [meaning:] make undefineds global

    Every operation is defined completely either by delivering a value of some type depending only on the types of its operands or by causing some defined exception; there are no ‘undefineds’ in Ten15.