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Priming (sometimes called partial function application in other programming languages) is the act of creating a new function by providing some but not all of the arguments to an existing function. For example, to create a function that takes one argument and adds 42 to it, you could prime the addition operator with 42 as a single argument: * + 42. See Whatever-priming and assuming.