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Leniency

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• Lenient

  [lee-nee-uh nt, leen-yuh nt] /ˈli ni ənt, ˈlin yənt/ adjective 1. agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent: He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression. 2. Archaic. softening, soothing, or alleviative. /ˈliːnɪənt/ adjective 1. showing or characterized by mercy or tolerance 2. (archaic) caressing or soothing adj. 1650s, “relaxing, […]

• Lenient evaluation

  reduction An evaluation strategy, described in [Traub, FPCA 89], under which all redexes are evaluated in parallel except inside the arms of conditionals and inside lambda abstractions. Lenient evaluation is an example of an eager evaluation strategy. (2004-01-22)

• Leniently

  [lee-nee-uh nt, leen-yuh nt] /ˈli ni ənt, ˈlin yənt/ adjective 1. agreeably tolerant; permissive; indulgent: He tended to be lenient toward the children. More lenient laws encouraged greater freedom of expression. 2. Archaic. softening, soothing, or alleviative. /ˈliːnɪənt/ adjective 1. showing or characterized by mercy or tolerance 2. (archaic) caressing or soothing adj. 1650s, “relaxing, […]

• Lenin

  [len-in; Russian lye-nyin] /ˈlɛn ɪn; Russian ˈlyɛ nyɪn/ noun 1. V(ladimir) I(lyich) [vlad-uh-meer il-yich;; Russian vluh-dyee-myir ee-lyeech] /ˈvlæd əˌmɪər ˈɪl yɪtʃ;; Russian vlʌˈdyi myɪr iˈlyitʃ/ (Show IPA), (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov”N. Lenin”) 1870–1924, Russian revolutionary leader: Soviet premier 1918–24. /ˈlɛnɪn/ noun 1. Vladimir Ilyich (vlaˈdimir iljˈjitʃ), original surname Ulyanov. 1870–1924, Russian statesman and Marxist theoretician; first […]

• Leninabad

  [len-i-nuh-bahd; Russian lyi-nyi-nuh-baht] /ˈlɛn ɪ nəˌbɑd; Russian lyɪ nyɪ nʌˈbɑt/ noun 1. former (1936–91) name of . /Russian lɪninaˈbat/ noun 1. the former name (1937–91) of Khojent

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