Definitions for CONS
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1. consnoun

   A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

2. consverb

   To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.

   In addition to specifying the whole list at once using square brackets and commas, you can build them up piece by piece using the () operator. This process is often referred to as consing.

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1. cons

   Connection-Oriented Network Service (CONS) is one of the two Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network layer protocols, the other being Connectionless-mode Network Service (CLNS). It is basically X.25, with a few adjustments.

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1. cons

   In computer programming, cons is a fundamental function in most dialects of the Lisp programming language. cons constructs memory objects which hold two values or pointers to values. These objects are referred to as cells, conses, non-atomic s-expressions, or pairs. In Lisp jargon, the expression "to cons x onto y" means to construct a new object with. The resulting pair has a left half, referred to as the car, and a right half, referred to as the cdr. It is loosely related to the object-oriented notion of a constructor, which creates a new object given arguments, and more closely related to the constructor function of an algebraic data type system. The word "cons" and expressions like "to cons onto" are also part of a more general functional programming jargon. Sometimes operators that have a similar purpose, especially in the context of list processing, are pronounced "cons".

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1. cons

   [from LISP] 1. vt. To add a new element to a specified list, esp. at the top. “OK, cons picking a replacement for the console TTY onto the agenda.” 2. cons up: vt. To synthesize from smaller pieces: “to cons up an example”.In LISP itself, cons is the most fundamental operation for building structures. It takes any two objects and returns a dot-pair or two-branched tree with one object hanging from each branch. Because the result of a cons is an object, it can be used to build binary trees of any shape and complexity. Hackers think of it as a sort of universal constructor, and that is where the jargon meanings spring from.

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1. CONS

   What does CONS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the CONS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. CONS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cons is ranked #63873 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Cons surname appeared 312 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cons.
   
   77.5% or 242 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   20.5% or 64 total occurrences were White.

How to pronounce CONS?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say CONS in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONS in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of CONS in a Sentence

1. Gary Greenwood:

   It moves the dial a little more in the direction of reasons to not be here rather than being here, it sounds like shareholders are putting more pressure on management to do that. So you probably need to go through the (cost/benefit) exercise again and say these are the pros and cons.

2. Duane Feustel:

   He's done what he's done for Wisconsin - there's pros and cons to it.

3. John Gebhart:

   I think the ultimate takeaway is that patients should continue to ask questions of their physicians and ask what the pros and cons of each approach are for the patient.

4. Isaac Mashman:

   High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons

5. Boris Pistorius:

   As far as the delivery of the Leopard is concerned, there is no unanimous opinion, there are good reasons for the delivery and there are good reasons against it. And given the overall situation of a war that has been going on for almost one year now, all the pros and cons have to be weighed very carefully, and that assessment is explicitly shared by many allies.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cons
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=CONS
4. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Cons
5. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html