Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eta conversion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

Syllables: eta -con-ver-sion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, which expresses a sort of tautology about function application. The rule says that a lambda abstraction of the form (λx.(fx)) may be rewritten as simply f, provided that x does not occur freely in f (considered by itself).

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

eta conversions (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

alpha conversion beta reduction

Questions

What does eta conversion mean?: One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, which expresses a sort of tautology about function application. The rule says that a lambda abstraction of the form (λx.(fx)) may be rewritten as simply f, provided that x does not occur freely in f (considered by itself).

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