is there a proper name for this?

pootis.lua

function pootis(f, ...)
  local t = {}
  for i,v in ipairs({...}) do
    t[i] = f(v)
  end
  return unpack(t)
end

-- example usage
--  > pootis(math.floor, 1.1, 2.2, 3.3, 4.4)
--  1    2    3    4