Intel Fortran Language Reference - NCI National Facility

Glossary
substring
A contiguous portion of a scalar character string. Do not confuse this with the substring selector in
an array section, where the result is another array section, not a substring.
symbolic name
See name.
syntax
The formal structure of a statement or command string.
T
target
The named data object associated with a pointer (in the form pointer-object => target). A target is
specified in a TARGET statement or in a type declaration statement that contains the TARGET
attribute. See also pointer and pointer association.
thread
Part of a program that can run at the same time as other parts, usually with some form of
communication and/or synchronization among the threads. See also multithreading.
transformational function
An intrinsic function that is not an elemental or inquiry function. A transformational function
usually changes an array actual argument into a scalar result or another array, rather than applying
the argument element by element.
truncation
Can be either of the following:
• A technique that approximates a numeric value by dropping its fractional value and using
only the integer portion.
• The process of removing one or more characters from the left or right of a number or string.
type
See data type.
type declaration statement
A nonexecutable statement specifying the data type of one or more variables: an INTEGER,
REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, COMPLEX, DOUBLE COMPLEX, CHARACTER, LOGICAL,
or TYPE statement. In Fortran 95/90, a type declaration statement may also specify attributes for
the variables. Also called a type declaration or type specification.
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