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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Constructor \Con*struct"or\, noun [Cf. LL. constructor.] A constructer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
constructor
noun: someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) [syn: {builder}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
constructor
1. In {functional programming} and {type theory}, one of the symbols used to create an object with an {algebraic data type}. 2. A function provided by a {class} in {C++} and some other {object-oriented languages} to {instantiate} an object, i.e. to name it and initialise it. The constructor function has the same name as the class. A class may also have a {destructor} function to destroy objects of that class. (1994-10-20)
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