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meaning - What does the word "respectively" mean in software development?



C# Textreader and TextWriter are the another way to read and write file respectively...

I added a text box and button I called tbUpdate and btUpdate respectively...

In the right hand column, we’ll use three TextBlocks; the first and third as fixed labels (with the values Likeability: and % respectively)...

WorkerSupportsProgress and WorkerSupportsCancellation which hold true/false values that let the backgroundworker report progress or cancel an async progress respectively...



While learning many the many different aspects of development, I have not come across a book or series where the word respectively is not used in explaining an example. Honestly I guess it's implied that we know what it means. To me I always kind of skim over it because I can usually figure out what they're saying through the surrounding context. Can anyone explain this?



Answer



This is not really a programming question. It is always true in English that when you say "A and B are true for X and Y respectively," you mean that A is true for X and B is true for Y.


So to take your examples



C# Textreader is another way to read a file and TextWriter is another way to write a file...


I added a text box I called tbUpdate and button I called btUpdate...


In the right hand column, we’ll use three TextBlocks; the first (with the value Likeability) and third (with the value %) as fixed labels...


WorkerSupportsProgress which holds true/false values that lets the backgroundworker report progress and WorkerSupportsCancellation which holds true/false values that let the backgroundworker cancel an async progress...



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