English

point-free

Employing or relating to tacit programming.

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    Origin

    From point + -free.

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    • partEnglishpoint “Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishpoynt
        • borrowedOld Frenchpoint
    • suffixEnglish-free “Free from; devoid of; without.”
      • inheritedMiddle English-fre
        • inheritedOld Englishfrēo “freeborn”

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