cdr
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editEnglish
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editEtymology
editAcronym of contents of the decrement part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈku.də/, /ˈku.dɚ/
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Noun
editcdr (plural cdrs)
- (programming) The second part of a cons in Lisp. The remainder of a list when the first element is removed.
- Antonym: car
- 2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach:
- The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.
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edit- CAR and CDR on Wikipedia.Wikipedia