string reduction

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string reduction - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  string reduction
  
     A reduction system where an expression is represented as a
     string of function names, constants and parentheses.  It is
     reduced by replacing parts of the string representing subterms
     by their value.
  
     It is harder to represent sharing of subexpressions in string
     reduction than in graph reduction.
  
     (1995-02-06)