shallow-copy

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English

Verb

shallow-copy (third-person singular simple present shallow-copies, present participle shallow-copying, simple past and past participle shallow-copied)

  1. (transitive) To make a shallow copy of.
    The bug came from trying to shallow-copy a mutable structure.