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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒp.ʃə.nəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑp.ʃə.nəl/
Adjective[edit]
optional (not comparable)
- Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
- Synonyms: facultative; see also Thesaurus:optional
- Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory; see also Thesaurus:compulsory
- On that beach clothing is entirely optional.
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not compulsory
Noun[edit]
optional (plural optionals)
- Something that is not compulsory, especially part of an academic course.
- (programming, sometimes capitalized) In various programming languages, a kind of variable that is assigned a specific data type but may or may not hold an actual value.
- 2015, Richard M Reese, Learning Java Functional Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 147:
- In functional languages, there is a data type called the option type, also called the maybe type. Its purpose is to encapsulate a value, which is returned from a function. […] In Java 8, the Optional class has been added to serve as an option type.
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German[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
optional (strong nominative masculine singular optionaler, not comparable)
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of optional (uncomparable)
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English optional.
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Noun[edit]
optional m (invariable)
References[edit]
- ^ optional in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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