variadic

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

Adjective

  1. Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
    • 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. - 1983, Alan Bundy, The Computer Modelling of Mathematical...
    • 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...
  2. Belonging to a variadic function.
    • each variadic argument

Origin

From variable + -adic.

Related

monadic diadic triadic polyadic

Noun

  1. A function that takes a variable number of arguments.
    • PHP 5.6 introduced variadics that explicitly accept a variable number of parameters. - 2017, Andrew Beak, PHP 7 Zend Certification Study Guide, page 44:

Forms

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