"beta reduce" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: beta reduces [present, singular, third-person], beta reducing [participle, present], beta reduced [participle, past], beta reduced [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} beta reduce (third-person singular simple present beta reduces, present participle beta reducing, simple past and past participle beta reduced)
  1. (computer science, transitive or intransitive) To syntactically replace a function call by the result of calling that function. Wikipedia link: lambda calculus#Beta reduction Tags: intransitive, transitive Categories (topical): Computer science Related terms: beta reduction, beta convert, beta conversion

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