decay
[Nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in C; they "decay into" pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element. This term is not used in the official standard for the language. [Jargon File]Nearby terms:
debugging tool ♦ DEC ♦ dec ♦ DEC Alpha ♦ decay ♦ DECdesign ♦ DECdns ♦ DEChead ♦ dechunker
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