(RTTI) Facilities included in C++compilers to allow the type of an object to be determined at run time.This facility, found in good C++ compilers and some other high level languages, adds type information to memory resident objects (i.e. type name or unique type-id).This allows the run-time system to determine if an object is of a specific type, for example, to ensure that a cast of an object is valid.(1996-04-15)