Speakur

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referential opacity

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English

Syllables
ref-er-en-tial opac-i-ty
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A property of a linguistic construction where, for an expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value may change the value of the expression.

Uncountable

Usage

Antonyms

referential transparency

Questions

What does referential opacity mean?
A property of a linguistic construction where, for an expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value may change the value of the expression.

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