Cadr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɑːdÉ™/, /ˈkÉ‘dÉš/

Origin

Contraction of car of the cdr.

Full definition of cadr

Noun

1. (computing) Car of the cdr in LISP. The second element in a list.
• Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, and J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach, 2000 :If we let x denote the tree (1 2 3), then the car of x is 1, the cdr of x is (2 3), the cadr of x is 2, the caddr of x is 3, and the cdddr of x is nil.

Derived terms

• caddr

Related terms

• car
• cdr
• cddr
• cons
• LISP