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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
derived type
A type constructed from primitive types or
other derived types using a type constructor function. This
term is usually applied to procedural languages such as C
or Ada. C's derived types are the array, function,
pointer, structure, and union.
Compare derived class.
(2001-09-14)