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multimethod

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

Syllables
mul-ti-method
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Employing multiple methods.

noun

A method that uses multiple dispatch, allowing various implementations to be called depending on the types of the arguments.

Etymology

From multi- + method.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

multi-method (alternative) multimethods (plural)

Questions

What does multimethod mean?
Employing multiple methods.
Where does multimethod come from?
From multi- + method.

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