beta reduce

English

Verb

beta reduce (third-person singular simple present beta reduces, present participle beta reducing, simple past and past participle beta reduced)

1. (computer science, transitive or intransitive) To syntactically replace a function call by the result of calling that function.

   The term $(\lambda x.\,x)\,y$ can beta reduce to $y\!$.

See also

• beta reduction
• beta convert
• beta conversion