currying n 🔊

1. (computing) gerund of curry: (uncountable) the technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument; (countable) an instance of using this technique.

☞ The American computer scientist and mathematician Haskell Curry, who further developed the technique based on earlier work by other mathematicians, was born on this day in 1900.

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