2. Verb. (computing) The two-character symbol sequence ":=" used in some programming languages to mean ''is assigned the value of''. Used to distinguish between assignment of value and comparison for equality. ¹
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Definition of Becomes
1. become [v] - See also: become
Lexicographical Neighbors of Becomes
Literary usage of Becomes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"of the activities ; and it is the special merit of this classification that it
is based on and in turn becomes an index to what the peoples habitually do, ..."
2. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"... NOSE becomes OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG. THE next morning poor, jaded, famished
Passepartout said to himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards, ..."