In programming, a variable that keeps track of the number of iterations of a process. Its value is incremented or decremented with each iteration, and it is compared to a constant or other variable to ...

A variable (structure that holds data) that is not available at runtime to the application. This typically occurs with programming languages such as scripts, which allow variables to be located at ...

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