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positional

  • adjective

Relating to the position of something.

Other meanings

  1. Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.

  2. An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.

Related words

  • antipositional
  • bipositional
  • equipositional
  • geopositional
  • interpositional
  • multipositional
  • nonpositional
  • positionality
  • positional asphyxia
  • positional voting
  • positional good
  • positional isomer

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “positional” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.