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referential transparency

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English

Syllables
ref-er-en-tial -trans-paren-cy
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
7
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A property of a linguistic construction where, for any expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value does not change the value of the expression.

Uncountable

Usage

Antonyms

referential opacity

Questions

What does referential transparency mean?
A property of a linguistic construction where, for any expression built from it, replacing a subexpression with another one that denotes the same value does not change the value of the expression.

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