reserved word

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A word reserved for a particular purpose in Java, such as class, int, public, etc. Such words may not be used as ordinary identifiers.

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In programming languages, a keyword whose definition is fixed by the programming language and which cannot be changed by the user. Note: In Ada® and COBOL all keywords are reserved words, while Fortran has no reserved words.

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