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Applicative is an English word with synonyms like applicable or practical. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Applicative in a sentence

Applicative meaning

  1. Having practical application; applicable.
  2. Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result.
  3. Involving the application of an operator on an operand.

Synonyms of Applicative

applicable applicatory practical

Related words

Other words often associated with Applicative or its synonyms:

functional applied practicable relevant serviceable working realistic operable interoperable pragmatic unimaginative

Using Applicative

  • The main meaning on this page is: Having practical application; applicable. | Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result. | Involving the application of an operator on an operand.
  • Useful related words include: applicable, applicatory, practical.
  • In the example corpus, applicative often appears in combinations such as: applicative order, using applicative.

Context around Applicative

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 0 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

using 2× portal 1× kent 1×

Often after:

order 5× computing 1× operating 1×

Sentence patterns with Applicative

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

also portal applicative computing systems 1× applicative order always 1× applicative order is 1× essentially using applicative order call 1× example in applicative order λx 1× of using applicative order is 1× the kent applicative operating system 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

applicative order always 1× applicative order is 1× see also portal 1× the kent applicative 1× the positive tradeoff 1× this is done 1×

Common sentence endings:

a normalising strategy 1× applicative order λx 1× called eager evaluation 1× designated universal machine 1× inter process communication 1× is not possible 1×

Words around Applicative

Just before it in the word index:

applications 6.324 application 7.903 applicate 2 applicants 1.374 applicant 658 applicable 921

Just after it in the word index:

applicator 29 applicators 23 applied 5.473 applieddoi 2 applier 3 appliers 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaba 10 aafc 10 aaib 10 aalbers 10 abbate 10 abbesses 10

Corpus analysis for Applicative

  • In this selection, "applicative" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, using, portal, kent, order, computing and operating stand out and add context to how "applicative" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include also portal applicative computing systems and applicative order always. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "applicative" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with applicative

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Applicative order is not a normalising strategy. (7 words)

In the above example, in applicative order (λx. (8 words)

Applicative order always attempts to apply functions to normal forms, even when this is not possible. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

See also portal * Applicative computing systems – Treatment of objects in the style of the lambda calculus * Binary lambda calculus – A version of lambda calculus with binary I/O, a binary encoding of terms, and a designated universal machine. (38 words)

The positive tradeoff of using applicative order is that it does not cause unnecessary computation, if all arguments are used, because it never substitutes arguments containing redexes and hence never needs to copy them (which would duplicate work). (38 words)

The Kent Applicative Operating System is a functional operating system concept to use dynamic process creation and inter-process communication. (20 words)

Example sentences (7)

Applicative order always attempts to apply functions to normal forms, even when this is not possible.

Applicative order is not a normalising strategy.

In the above example, in applicative order (λx.

See also portal * Applicative computing systems – Treatment of objects in the style of the lambda calculus * Binary lambda calculus – A version of lambda calculus with binary I/O, a binary encoding of terms, and a designated universal machine.

The Kent Applicative Operating System is a functional operating system concept to use dynamic process creation and inter-process communication.

The positive tradeoff of using applicative order is that it does not cause unnecessary computation, if all arguments are used, because it never substitutes arguments containing redexes and hence never needs to copy them (which would duplicate work).

This is done essentially using applicative order, call by value reduction (see below), but usually called "eager evaluation".

Common combinations with applicative

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "applicative" in a sentence?
An example: "Applicative order always attempts to apply functions to normal forms, even when this is not possible." This page contains 7 example sentences with the word "applicative" from authentic English texts.
What does "applicative" mean?
Applicative means: Having practical application; applicable.
What are synonyms of "applicative"?
Common synonyms of "applicative" include: applicable, applicatory, practical.
How many example sentences with "applicative" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 7 example sentences with "applicative", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.