function application

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function application - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  function application
  
     A function applied to (some of) its arguments.  If it is
     not applied to all its argument then it is a "partial application
     ".  Application is usually written in the form
     f(x) but some languages such as command-line interpreters and
     many functional languages use juxtaposition: f x.  Lisp
     places the parentheses around the whole application: (f x).