eta conversion (English, noun)
expansion: eta conversion (countable and uncountable, plural eta conversions)
Senses:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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).
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: eta conversions
tags: plural