Properties of an ADT

An ADT must possess the following characteristics:[1]

1. the facility to create a container to hold the data;

2. the facility to add a new element to the container;

3. the facility to remove/delete an element which satisfies some

criterion form the container;

4. the facility to find an element which satisfies some criterion within

the container;

5. the facility to destroy the container when it is no longer required.

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[1] (Caribbean Examinations Council Computer Science Syllabus, 2015, p. 83)