Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

variadic

/vɛɹiˈædɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: vari-adic
IPA: /vɛɹiˈædɪk/

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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

adj

Belonging to a variadic function.

noun

A function that takes a variable number of arguments.

Example Sentences

"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’."
"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"
"each variadic argument"
"PHP 5.6 introduced variadics that explicitly accept a variable number of parameters."

Etymology

From variable + -adic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: variable

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /vɛɹiˈædɪk/
British English: /vɛəɹiˈædɪk/

Inflected Forms

variadics (plural)

Derived Forms

nonvariadic polyvariadic

Frequently Paired Words

monadic diadic triadic polyadic

Rhymes With

dodecadic zeroadic

Questions

How do you pronounce variadic?: The recorded pronunciation is /vɛɹiˈædɪk/.
What does variadic mean?: Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
Where does variadic come from?: From variable + -adic.

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