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optional
English
Etymology
option +? -al
Adjective
optional (not comparable)
- Not compulsory; left to personal choice; elective.
- Synonyms: facultative; see also Thesaurus:optional
- Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory; see also Thesaurus:compulsory
Antonyms
- non-optional, nonoptional
Related terms
- option
- optionality
- optionally
Translations
Noun
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.
- 2015, Richard M Reese, Learning Java Functional Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd (?ISBN), page 147:
Anagrams
- Politano
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pts??o?na?l/
- Hyphenation: op?ti?o?nal
Adjective
optional (not comparable)
- optional
Declension
Further reading
- “optional” in Duden online
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English optional.
Noun
optional m (invariable)
- optional accessory
- handicap (horse racing)
Anagrams
- pilotano
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option
English
Etymology
From French option, from Latin opti? (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from opt? (“I choose, select”). Equivalent to opt +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /??p??n/
Noun
option (plural options)
- One of a set of choices that can be made. [from the 19th c.]
- The freedom or right to choose.
- (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile. [from the mid-18th c.]
Synonyms
- alternative
- choice
- possibility
- See also Thesaurus:option
Hypernyms
- (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset): derivative
Hyponyms
- (finance) (A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset): American option, Bermudan option, European option, call option or call, put option or put, warrant
Derived terms
- optionable
- optional
- option button
- stock option
Related terms
- opt
- optimal
- optimise, optimize
- optimism
- optimist
- optimistic
Translations
Verb
option (third-person singular simple present options, present participle optioning, simple past and past participle optioned)
- To purchase an option on something. [from the 20th c]
- The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
- (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.
- 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy
- The device that is to echo the characters should be optioned for echoplexing.
- 1991, Martin D. Seyer, RS-232 made easy
Further reading
- option in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- option in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- potion
Finnish
Noun
option
- Genitive singular form of optio.
Anagrams
- opinto, opinto-
French
Etymology
From Latin opti? (“choice; option; act of choosing”), from opt? (“I choose, select”).
Pronunciation
Noun
option f (plural options)
- option
Further reading
- “option” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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