variadic

variable +‎ -adic

• (US) IPA^(key): /vɛɹiˈædɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɛəɹiˈædɪk/

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• Rhymes: -ædɪk

variadic (not comparable)

1. (computing, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
   • 1983, Alan Bundy, The Computer Modelling of Mathematical Reasoning‎, 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, 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 edition, Lulu.com, →ISBN, 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

   C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.

• monadic
• diadic
• triadic
• polyadic

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