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terms | variadic |

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective variadic is

(computing|mathematics|linguistics) taking a variable number of arguments; especially , taking arbitrarily many arguments.

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    variadic

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    Adjective

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  • (computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially , taking arbitrarily many arguments.
  • * 1983 , Alan Bundy, The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning ,[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=El8_AQAAIAAJ&q=variadic] Academic Press, page 48:
    • There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic .
  • * 2004 , François Récanati, Literal Meaning , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-53736-3, page 109:
    • The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.
  • * 2006 , Nils M. Holm, Sketchy LISP: An Introduction to Functional Programming in Scheme , Second Edition, Lulu.com, ISBN 978-1-4116-7448-6:
    • page 53: However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9
    page 54: Because (non-primitive) procedures are created using lambda, there must be a way to create variadic lambda functions, too.
  • :C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.