👉 In the context of computer science, "athetizing" refers to a technique where a function or algorithm is designed to work with only one type of input. This means that if an input value occurs more than once in the data set being processed, the function will return a single value instead of processing all possible values at once. For example, consider a function that takes an integer as input and returns its square. If the input is 5, the function would return 25 because