arg
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🇺🇸
/ɑɹɡ/
🇬🇧
/ɑːɡ/
reason / input / angle
Etymology
'arg' originates as an informal shortening of the English word 'argument', which itself comes from Latin 'argumentum'.
'argument' comes from Latin 'argumentum' (meaning 'evidence, proof, subject'), passed into Old French as 'argument' and then into Middle English as 'argument', from which the clipped form 'arg' developed in informal and technical usage.
Initially related to 'argument' in the senses of 'evidence' or 'a statement', the clipped form 'arg' evolved to denote specifically a 'reason/claim', a 'function input' in computing, or an exclamation of frustration.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
(informal, computing) A value passed to a function or program; a function or command-line input parameter.
Pass the filename as an arg to the script.
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Noun 2
(informal abbreviation) An argument in the sense of a reason, claim, or dispute.
She made a strong arg in favor of the proposal.
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Noun 3
(mathematics) The angle (argument) of a complex number, often written arg(z).
Compute arg(z) to determine the complex number's angle.
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