templatize

English

Alternative forms

• templatise (UK)

Etymology

From template +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛm.pləˌtaɪz/ (enPR: tĕmˈ-plə-tīzˌ)

Verb

templatize (third-person singular simple present templatizes, present participle templatizing, simple past and past participle templatized)

1. (transitive, especially computing and programming) To convert into a template or to represent by means of a template, for purposes of genericizing, automating, tracking, etc.
   • 1979 November 12, Kathy Faryon, “Patchwork Quilting”, in Edmonton Journal, →ISSN, page B6:

     To ensure a professional-looking product and fewer hassles, take the first step and 'templatize' your pattern pieces.

   • 2000, Mark A DeLoura, Game programming gems:

     For our final look at metaprogramming, we templatize matrix multiplication.

   • 2001, Andrei Alexandrescu, Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied:

     We must templatize the engine with the base types of the two arguments (left-hand side and right-hand side).

   • 2004, Chris Sells, Justin Gehtland, Windows Forms programming in Visual Basic.NET:

     This makes it trivial to templatize your application; changes to the new generic base form automatically cascade to the derived classes at the next build.

   • 2008, Mark S Joshi, C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing:

     An iterator is a generalization of a pointer and we could templatize the code to work off any iterator.

Derived terms

• nontemplatized
• templatization