3 Terms and definitions [intro.defs]

3.3 projection [defns.projection]

⟨function object argument⟩ transformation which an algorithm applies before inspecting the values of elements

Example:

std::pair<int, const char*> pairs[] = {{2, "foo"}, {1, "bar"}, {0, "baz"}};
ranges::sort(pairs, std::less<>{}, [](auto const& p) { return p.first; });

sorts the pairs in increasing order of their first members:

{{0, "baz"}, {1, "bar"}, {2, "foo"}}

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