function
English
Noun
(
en noun)
What something does or is used for.
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A professional or official position.
(senseid)An official or social occasion.
A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
(mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
(biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
(chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
(anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
Synonyms
* (what something does or is used for) aim, intention, purpose, role, use
* (professional or official position) occupation, office, part, role
* (official or social occasion) affair, occasion, social occasion, social function
* many-to-one map, many-to-one mapping, mathematical function, operation, transformation
* procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine
Hypernyms
* (mathematics) relation
Related terms
* (l)
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Derived terms
* absolutely continuous function
* acidity function
* adaptive-control function
* additive function
* additive set function
* adjoint wave function
* aggregate function
* Airy function
* Airy stress function
* algebraic function
* almost-periodic function
* alternating function
* analytic function
* analytical function generator
* anatomy of function
* antihyperbolic function
* antisymmetric wave function
* antisymmetrized wave function
* antitrigonometric function
* arc-hyperbolic function
* autocorrelation function
* Baire function
* bei function
* ber function
* Bessel function
* beta function
* bifunctional
* biharmonic function
* Bloch function
* Boolean function
* Borel measurable function
* bounded function
* boxcar function
* Brillouin function
* built-in function
* Cantor function
* characteristic function
* circular function
* cofunction
* comparable function
* complementary function
* complete class of decision function
* composite function
* compressadensity function
* computable function
* concave function
* confluent hypergeometric function
* conjugate convex function
* connect function
* constant function
* constraint function
* contiguous function
* continuous function
* convex function
* cosine function
* cost function
* countably additive set function
* countably subadditive set function
* critical function
* cross-correlation function
* cyclosymmetric function
* cylinder function
* decreasing function
* delta function
* density function
* describing function
* differentiable function
* difunctional
* digamma function
* diode function generator
* Dirac wave function
* discriminant function
* disfunction
* dissipation function
* driving-point function
* dysfunction
* effectively computable function
* eigenfunction
* eigenfunction expansion
* Einstein partition function
* electron wave function
* electronic work function
* elementary function
* elementary symmetric function
* elliptic function
* Emden function
* entire function
* equivalent propositional function
* error function
* essentially bounded function
* Euler's phi function
* even function
* excitation function
* executive ego function
* explicit function
* exponential density function
* exponential function
* exponential generating function
* feedback transfer function
* Fermi-Dirac distribution function
* form function
* forward transfer function
* Fowler function
* frontogenetic function
* function code
* function failure safety
* function generator
* function key
* function multiplier
* function object
* function space
* function switch
* function table
* function unit
* function-evaluation routine
* functional
* functionalism
* functionality
* gamma function
* general-purpose function generator
* generalized transmission function
* generating function
* Green's function
* Hamiltonian function
* Hammett acidity function
* Hankel function
* harmonic function
* Heaviside unit function
* hei function
* her function
* Hildebrand function
* homogeneous function
* Hugoniot function
* hybrid wave function
* hyperbolic function
* hypergeometric function
* identity function
* implicit function
* implicit function theorem
* impulse function
* incidence function
* incomplete beta function
* incomplete gamma function
* increasing function
* independent function
* influence function
* information function of a partition
* initial mass function
* inner function
* integrable function
* integral function
* invariant function
* inverse function
* inverse function theorem
* inverse hyperbolic function
* inverse trigonometric function
* inverting function
* J function
* Jacobian elliptic function
* jump function
* kei function
* ker function
* Koebe function
* Lagrange stream function
* Lagrangian function
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* Langevin function
* left-continuous function
* Legendre function
* Leverett function
* line function
* linear discriminant function
* linear function
* Liouville function
* locally integrable function
* logarithmic trigonometric function
* logarithmically convex function
* loop transfer function
* loss function
* lower semicontinuous function
* luminosity function
* Lyapunov function
* malfunction
* malfunction routine
* Massieu function
* mathematical function program
* Mathieu function
* Maxwell's stress function
* measurable function
* membership function
* meromorphic function
* microspec function
* minimal brain dysfunction syndrome
* Minkowski distance function
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* modified Bessel function
* modified Hankel function
* moment generating function
* momentum wave function
* monofunctional compound
* monogenic analytic function
* monotone function
* monotone nondecreasing function
* monotone nonincreasing function
* monotonic increasing function
* Morera's stress function
* multifunction array radar
* multilinear function
* multiplicative number-theoretic function
* natural function
* Neumann function
* nonfunctional packages software
* normal density function
* normalized function
* normalized support function
* NOT function
* nuclear response function
* number-theoretic function
* objective function
* odd function
* optimizing control function
* orthogonal function
* orthonormal function
* parabolic cylinder function
* partial function
* partial recursive function
* particle distribution function
* partition function
* Patterson function
* penalty function
* periodic function
* phase function
* piecewise-continuous function
* Planck function
* point characteristic function
* point function
* Poisson density function
* polynomial function
* positive linear functional
* positive real function
* power function
* predefined function
* principal function
* probability density function
* probability mass function
* programmed function key
* proper rational function
* propositional function
* psi function
* pulsed transfer function
* quadratic function
* Rademacher function
* radial distribution function
* radicofunctional name
* random function
* rational function
* Rayleigh's dissipation function
* real-valued function
* recursive function
* regular function
* regulatory control function
* restricted function
* Riccati-Bessel function
* Riemann function
* Riemann P function
* Riemann zeta function
* sample function
* scalar function
* scattering function
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* self-dual switching function
* self-organizing function
* sensitivity function
* separated-function synchrotron
* set function
* sharpness function technique
* shear-viscosity function
* sigma function
* simple function
* simply periodic function
* single-valued function
* sinusoidal function
* skewed density function
* Smarandache function
* source function
* special function
* spectral function
* spherical Bessel function
* staff function
* step function
* step-function generator
* Stokes stream function
* stress function
* subadditive function
* subadditive set function
* subfunction
* subfunctional
* subharmonic function
* subsine function
* summable function
* superadditive function
* superharmonic function
* support function
* switch function
* switching function
* symmetric function
* tapped-potentiometer function generator
* test function
* tetrafunctional molecule
* thermionic work function
* thermodynamic function of state
* theta function
* tool-function controller
* torsion function
* transcendental function
* transfer function
* transition function
* transmission function
* trigamma function
* trigonometric cofunction
* trigonometric function
* truth function
* Turing computable function
* universal transmission function
* universal wavelength function
* upper semicontinuous function
* user-defined function
* variable diode function generator
* vector function
* viscous dissipation function
* wave function
* Wannier function
* Weierstrass function
* Weierstrassian elliptic function
* weight function
* work function
Verb
(
en verb)
to have a function
to carry on a function; to be in action
Synonyms
* (to have a function) officiate, serve
* (to carry on a function) go, operate, run, work
Antonyms
* (to carry on a function) malfunction
Related terms
* functional
* dysfunction, dysfunctional
