autovivify (English, verb)
expansion: autovivify (third-person singular simple present autovivifies, present participle autovivifying, simple past and past participle autovivified)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the Perl programming language, to create an array or hash automatically when a previously undefined value is dereferenced.
Forms:
form: autovivifies
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autovivifying
tags: participle
present
form: autovivified
tags: participle
past
form: autovivified
tags: past