Definitions
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- adjective computing, programming
Automatically boxed (mapped from a primitive type to a complex object).
Etymologies
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auto- + boxed
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Examples
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Integer. valueOf (String), which does not use the interned autoboxed wrapper objects but always returns a new instance.
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