currying

  1. Verb.  (present participle of, curry) .
  2. Noun.  (computing) The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result.

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