DECAY


Meaning of DECAY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n.,vi ]

[from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in C ; they `decay into' pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element. This term is borderline techspeak, but is not used in the official standard for the language.

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.