Variadic

Quick meaning: Variadic is an adjective meaning (programming, mathematics, linguistics) Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (programming) Belonging to a variadic function.
2. (programming) A function that takes a variable number of arguments.

Example Sentences

each variadic argument

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• variadics

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polyvariadic, megavariate, polyvariant, ternary, bivariably, multivariant.

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