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pseudohandle

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + handle.

  1. inherited from *handulōną✻ — “to take, grip, feel”
  2. inherited from *handulōn✻
  3. inherited from handlian — “to handle, feel, deal with, discuss”
  4. inherited from handlen
  5. prefixed as pseudohandle — “pseudo + handle”

Definitions

  1. A special value that can be treated as a handle (e.g. to identify a process) but is not a…

    A special value that can be treated as a handle (e.g. to identify a process) but is not a true handle.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudohandle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA