Narrowing

1) сужение 2) [трикотажная промышленность] сбавка

Англо-русский политехнический словарь

Narrowing

Unification followed by unfolding. The left-hand side of a rule is unified with some term, resulting in a set of variable bindings. The term is then replaced by the right-hand side of the rule with values substituted for bound variables.

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