FUNCTION
\fˈʌŋkʃən], \fˈʌŋkʃən], \f_ˈʌ_ŋ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of FUNCTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"
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a formal or official social gathering or ceremony; "it was a black-tie function"
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a relation such that one thing is dependent on another; "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand"
By Princeton University
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what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"
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a formal or official social gathering or ceremony; "it was a black-tie function"
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a relation such that one thing is dependent on another; "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand"
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(mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set
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The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
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The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
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The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
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The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
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A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
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A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.
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A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.
By Oddity Software
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The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
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The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
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The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
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The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
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A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
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A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.
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A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.
By Noah Webster.
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The act or performance of any duty, office, or business; power; the office of any organ, animal or vegetable; public or official ceremony.
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To perform the duty or office for which a person or thing is intended.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The doing of a thing: duty peculiar to any office or profession: the peculiar office of any part of the body or mind: power: (math.) a quantity so connected with another that any change in the one changes the other.
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To perform or discharge a function: to act. Also FUNCTIONATE.
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FUNCTIONALLY.
By Daniel Lyons
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FUNCTIONALLY.
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To act.
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The appropriate business, duty, or office of any person or thing.
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A public ceremony or entertainment.
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A dependent quantity.
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Functional.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The action of an organ or system of organs. Any act, necessary for accomplishing a vital phenomenon. A function is a special office in the animal economy, which has, as its instrument, an organ or apparatus of organs. Thus respiration is a function. Its object is the conversion of venous into arterial blood, and its instrument is the lungs. The ancient physiologists divided the functions into vital, animal, and natural. They called vital functions those which are essential to life, as innervation, circulation, respiration; animal functions, those which belong to the encephalon; viz.: the functions of the intellect, the affections of the mind, and the voluntary motions; and natural functions, Faculta'tes seu Actio'nes natura'les, those relating to assimilation, such as the actions of the abdominal viscera, of the absorbent and exhalant vessels, &c. Bichat divided the functions into those which relate to the preservation of the individual, and those that relate to the preservation of the species. The former he subdivided into animal and organic. The animal functions or functions of relation are those of the intellect, sensation, locomotion, and voice. The organic functions include digestion, absorption, respiration, circulation, secretion, nutrition, and ealorification. The functions, whose object is the preservation of the species-the organic, nutritive, or vegetative functions- are all those that relate to generation ;-such as conception, gestation, accouchement, &c. Each of these admits of numerous subdivisions in a complete course of Physiology ;-for so the doctrine of the functions is called.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Act of executing; performance; discharge;—duty; office; employment; especially the duty proper to a particular character, relation, or official station;—trade; business;—the organic action of a part or member in an animal or vegetable body;—in mathematics, the relation of one quantity to another as derived from or formed by it, or as being dependent on and subordinate to its mutations.
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