parametric polymorphism

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parametric polymorphism (usually uncountable, plural parametric polymorphisms)

  1. (programming) A way to make a computer language more expressive, while maintaining full static type safety, by allowing a function or a data type to be written generically so that it can handle values identically without depending on their type.

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