The type of a variable is the format or range of data going into the variable. When variables are used in programming, their types must be declared in advance.
The kind of type depends on the programming language. Examples of variable types include integer, float, and string.
Technical Terms
Variable types
Technical Terms
Category
- Power Supplies
- Digital Control Programming
- 16bit
- 32bit
- API
- Argument
- Baud rate
- BCD
- Bit
- bps
- Byte
- CAN
- CC-Link
- Character
- Command Language
- Communication port
- Communication speed
- Container
- Debug
- Decimal
- Digit
- Driver
- Emulation
- Error Traps
- EtherNet/IP
- Floating-point
- GPIB
- Hexadecimal
- I2C
- Industrial Ethernet
- Industry 4.0
- IoT
- IVI
- LabVIEW
- Ladder/Ladder Language
- LAN
- Libraries
- Library (Programming Library)
- LXI
- M2M
- Master/Slave
- MATLAB
- Modbus
- Nominal (Nominal Value)
- NULL
- OSI Reference Model
- Overflow
- Packet
- Parity
- PLC
- PMbus
- Precision loss
- PROFIBUS
- PROFINET
- Programming Languages
- Protocol
- Python
- Queue
- Return value
- Rounding Error (Round-off Error)
- RS-232C
- RS-485
- SCPI
- SMbus
- Sockets
- SPI
- Stack
- String
- Subset
- Synchronization
- TCP
- UART
- UDP
- Underflow
- USB
- USBCDC
- USBTMC
- Variable
- Variable types
- VBA
- VISA
- Visual Basic
- Visual Basic .NET
- Visual C#
- Visual C++
- Word
- Wrapper
- X-ray
- Computed Tomography (CT)
- Laser