Functor (disambiguation)

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Functor may refer to:

• Functor in mathematics, a concept in category theory
• Predicate functor in logic, a basic concept of predicate functor logic
• Function word in linguistics
• In computer programming:
  • function object used to pass function pointers along with its state
  • for use of the term in Prolog language, see Prolog syntax and semantics
  • In Haskell a Functor describes a generalisation of functions that perform mapping operations
  • In OCaml and Standard ML, a functor is a higher-order module (a module parameterized by one or more other modules), often used to define type-safe abstracted algorithms and data structures.

See also

• Function (disambiguation)