Pun

A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor.

Computer science

The word "pun" is used with a slightly different sense in some computer science and hacking cultures to indicate a term with multiple meanings. For example it might be said that the + operator is punned for string concatenation (in this case, it refers to operator overloading).

Related Topics:
Computer science - Hacking - Operator overloading

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