Word Finder - function

definition

What something does or is used for.

synonyms

• aim
• intention
• purpose
• role
• use

definition

A professional or official position.

synonyms

• occupation
• office
• part
• role

definition

An official or social occasion.

synonyms

• affair
• occasion
• social function
• social occasion

definition

Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.

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A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.

definition

A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.

synonyms

• map
• mapping
• mathematical function
• operator
• transformation

definition

A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.

synonyms

• func
• funct
• procedure
• routine
• subprogram
• subroutine

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The physiological activity of an organ or body part.

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The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.

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The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.

definition

To have a function.

synonyms

• officiate
• serve

definition

To carry out a function; to be in action.

synonyms

• go
• operate
• run
• work

But that, too, is a function of present technology.

In the sense he can function but the memory is probably gone for good.

Exportable technology can function around the world.

She didn't understand how humans could feel so much and still function when she was overwhelmed.

Tests revealed normal brain function, and there was no indication of any permanent damage.

Her mind was beginning to function somewhere near normal.

And yes, everything and everyone in my life has a function and purpose.

The first is " the law that thought is a function of the brain."

Their function is not quite clear.

To this high conception of a preacher's function the prophet was faithful throughout his career.

It was then that my slowly reacting brain, flowing like cold molasses began to function, more than a gerbil driven wheel.

In many sees there were no vidames, their function being exercised by viscounts or chatelains.

Depending on function, robots can come in all shapes and sizes, and I see no compelling reason to make them like humans.

Unable to function from shock, he sat down on a rock overlooking the lake.

Free and peaceful societies function best when government is transparent and open.

He was performing the same function, but meeting him didn't darken Dean's mood appreciably.

Based on her medical records, the tumor didn't grow until she hit puberty and didn't interfere with her ability to function before a few years ago, Wynn started.

Simspon concluded that for a given wind velocity dissipation is practically a linear function of ionization.

The polyps are all non-sexual individuals whose function is purely nutritive.

Its function is to examine criminal cases and to decide whether they shall be referred for trial to the lower courts or the cours dassises.

The most important change introduced by the new law has been the creation in every province of a provincial administrative junta entrusted with the supervision of communal administrations, a function previously discharged by the provincial deputation.

Early in the 19th century the venue of the dinner, which had now become a ministerial function, was transferred to Greenwich, and though at first not always held here, was later celebrated regularly at the "Ship," an hotel of ancient foundation, closed in 1908.

If Ritschl had clearly shown that judgments of value enfold and transform other types of knowledge, just as the "spiritual man" includes and transfigures but does not annihilate the "natural man," then within the compass of this spiritually conditioned knowledge all other knowledge would be seen to have a function and a home.

When Ethel did the inviting, the function was nearly always out of town.

Accepting the law he distinguishes productive from permissive or transmissive function (p. 32), and, rejecting the view that brain produces thought, he recognizes that in our present condition brain transmits thought, thought needs brain for its organ of expression; but this does not exclude the possibility of a condition in which thought will be no longer so dependent on brain.

One of the chief names for the priest was baru - literally the "inspector" - which was given to him because of the prominence of his function as an inspector of livers for the purpose of divining the intention of the gods.

As it is with mechanical improvements, so is it to a still greater degree with changes in the function of timbre in art.

An instance of this characteristic function, specially remarkable because the composer has taken exceptional measures for it, is Beethoven's overture to Fidelio.

Bach's conception of the function of an instrument is that it holds a regular part in a polyphonic scheme; and his blending of tones is like the blending of colours in a purely decorative design.

Laplace is due the theoretical proof that this function is independent of temperature and pressure, and apparent experimental confirmation was provided by Biot and Arago's, and by Dulong's observations on gases and vapours.

Finally the theory defined is opposed to all forms of realism, whether in the older form which sought to reduce mind to a function of matter, or in any of the newer forms which seek for the ultimate essence of both mind and matter in some unknown force or energy which, while in itself it is neither, yet contains the potentiality of both.

Perhaps the earliest of such specializations is connected with the reproductive function.

Their chief function is to ordain, and to act as "intercessors."

Mention may also be made of the Tribunal des Conflits, a special court whose function it is to decide which is the competent tribunal when an administration and a judicial court both claim or refuse to deal with a given case.

The principal function of these courts is the hearing of appeals both civil and criminal from the courts of first instance; only in.

All access to the Deity is restricted to the one priesthood and to the one sanctuary at Jerusalem; the worshipping subject is the nation of Israel as a unity, and the function of worship is discharged on its behalf by divinely chosen priests.

The formation of a massive body naturally involves the localization of the absorptive region, and the function of absorption (which in the simpler forms is carried out by the whole of the vegetative part of the mycelium penetrating a solid or immersed in a liquid substratum) is subserved by the outgrowth of the hyphae of the surface-layer of that region into rhizoids, which, like those of the Algae living on soil, resemble the root-hairs of the higher plants.

Besides absorption, assimilation, conduction and protection there is another very important function for which provision has to be made in any plant-body of considerable size, especially when raised into the air, that of support.

As a secondary function we may recognize, in certain cases, the power of closing wounds, which results from the rapid coagulation of exuded latex in contact with the air.

The requirements of the several protoplasts must be met by supplies from without, and, as many of them are deep seated, varieties of need arise, so that various members of the colony are set apart for special duties, masses of them being devoted to the discharge of one function, others to that of another, and so on.

The latter function has been found to be of extreme importance in the case of plants exposed to the direct access of the suns rays, the heat of which would rapidly cause the death of the protoplasts were it not employed in the evaporation of the water.

Another enzyme, rennet, which in the animal body is proteolytic, is frequently met with in plants, but its function has not been ascertained.

Every plant is constrained to carry Out its functions of germination, growth, nutrition, reproduction, &c., between certain limits of temperature, and somewhere between the extremes of these limits each function finds ao optimum temperature at which the working of the living machinery is at its best, and, other things being equal, any great departure from this may induce pathological conditions; and many disasters are due to the failure to provide such suitable temperaturese.g.

The special function of the so-called "Socratic dialectic" was to show the inadequacy of popular beliefs.

As your husband, what will he consider his most important function?

Nevertheless, the function of reproduction is occasionally exercised by larvae.

Chladni's experiment of strewing a vibrating bell with flour, investigated the nature of sound and the function of the air in respiration and combustion, and originated the idea of using the pendulum as a measure of gravity.

The function of this pair of muscles is the closing of the valves.

A similar expression for the variation of the specific heat S at constant pressure is obtained from the second expression in (8), by taking p and 0 as independent variables; but it follows more directly from a consideration of the variation of the function (E+pv).

This latter function, however, is one unknown to the English common law.