interop

English

Etymology

Shortening; compare op (“operation”).

Noun

interop (uncountable)

1. (computing) interoperability
   • 2007, Gordon Hogenson, C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET, page 92:

     Using CLR types with classic C++ libraries is an example of C++ interop, which is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 12.

   • 2017, Mansib Rahman, Beginning Microsoft Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0, page 56:

     Generally, we will want to avoid doing heavy image processing in WPF without C++ interop because of performance issues. After all, we are looping through and applying operations to over 2 million pixels, 30 times a second!

Anagrams

• Petrino, Petroni, Pointer, pointer, protein, pterion, repoint, tropein, tropine