lambda-reikningur

Icelandic

Etymology

A calque of the English lambda calculus from the Greek character lambda (“lambda; λ”) and reikningur (“mathematics, arithmetic”).

Noun

lambda-reikningur m (genitive singular lambda-reiknings, nominative plural lambda-reikningar)

1. (computer theory) lambda calculus; (any of a family of functionally complete algebraic systems in which lambda expressions are evaluated according to a fixed set of rules to produce values, which may themselves be lambda expressions)