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variadic

adj
/vɛɹiˈædɪk/US/vɛəɹiˈædɪk/UK

Etymology

From variable + -adic.

  1. derived from variare — “to change”
  2. derived from variable
  3. suffixed as variadic — “variable + adic”

Definitions

  1. Taking a variable number of arguments

    Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.

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

  2. Belonging to a variadic function.

    • each variadic argument

  3. A function that takes a variable number of arguments.

    • PHP 5.6 introduced variadics that explicitly accept a variable number of parameters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for variadic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA