Noun

reference implementation (plural reference implementations)Category:English lemmas#REFERENCEIMPLEMENTATIONCategory:English nouns#REFERENCEIMPLEMENTATIONCategory:English countable nouns#REFERENCEIMPLEMENTATIONCategory:English multiword terms#REFERENCEIMPLEMENTATIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#REFERENCEIMPLEMENTATIONCategory:Pages with entries#REFERENCE%20IMPLEMENTATIONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#REFERENCE%20IMPLEMENTATION

1. (software engineeringCategory:en:Software engineering#REFERENCEIMPLEMENTATION) A piece of software that implements a specification of requirements and whose main purpose is to help in the creation of other software implementations of the specification by serving as a point of reference rather than being put to directly productive use.

   Synonyms: model implementation, sample implementation

See also

• reference implementation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia