applicative

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Having practical application; applicable.
2. adjective Of a programming language: using successive functional transformations on data to arrive at a result.
3. adjective Involving the application of an operator on an operand.
4. noun A grammatical construct that casts a peripheral noun phrase as direct object.

Similar words

applicatory applicable practical appliable useful applied practicable pointful practible appertinent

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Word family

applicatively