Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bird-meertens formalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bird-meerten-s -for-mal-ism
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A calculus for deriving programs from program specifications (in a functional programming setting) by a process of equational reasoning.

Etymology

Devised by Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens.

Inflected Forms

Bird-Meertens formalisms (plural)

Synonyms

BMF

Questions

What does bird-meertens formalism mean?: A calculus for deriving programs from program specifications (in a functional programming setting) by a process of equational reasoning.
Where does bird-meertens formalism come from?: Devised by Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens.

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