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Basically, a technical term from the C standard for anything stored in memory. (In practice, interchangeable with 'variable' or 'memory'.)
Inclusive of variables, structs, arrays, array entities
arr[2] etc.
To be distinguished from entities which do not exist in memory such as type definitions, macros, things that are handled by the pre-processor.
Where "memory" can be thought of anything that survives compilation.
They have nothing to do with "complex data types" that we would associate with OOP.