(data structure)
Definition: An array whose size may change over time. Items are not only added or removed, but memory used changes, too.
Note: For instance, REDIM in Visual Basic or malloc() in C. In some languages, such as Perl, all arrays are dynamic.
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Patrick Rodgers, "dynamic array", from
Dictionary of Algorithms and Data
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