uninhabited

English

Etymology

un- + inhabited.

Adjective

uninhabited (not comparable)

  1. Not inhabited; having no inhabitants.
  2. (type theory, of a type) Not having a term.
    • 2017, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis; Zhaohui Luo, editors, Modern Perspectives in Type-Theoretical Semantics, Springer, →ISBN, page 282:
      This is not a contradiction since an uninhabited type has no complete terms and a probability distribution over an empty type is ill defined anyway.
    • [2021, Dean Wampler, chapter 13, in Programming Scala, 3rd edition, O'Reilly, →ISBN:
      Unlike Null, Nothing has no instances. We say the type is uninhabited.]

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