hygienic
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- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
/haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/
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/haɪˈd͡ʒiːnɪk/ · /haɪˈd͡ʒɛnɪk/ · /hʌɪd͡ʒɪˈɛnɪk/
Definition of hygienic
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
- Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
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adj
- Pertaining to hygiene; clean, sanitary, free of disease.
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(slang)Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
“Of course, anyone with a Scheme background is probably howling at this point because they have a hygienic macro system that makes unintended variable capture impossible. Allowing variable capture when we really, really want it makes Clojure's macro system technically more dangerous than hygienic systems.”
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Etymology
From French hygiénique. Displaced earlier hygienal.
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