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A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function y=f(x) whose argument x varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.

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A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.

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An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

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In good working order.

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Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function

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That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.

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Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture

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A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements

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Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

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Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

The first step consists in the functional treatment of equations.

For me everything is functional, but you have style.

That's not the way a functional relationship works, she said, anger building.

The bodywall is greatly simplified in the Gymnolaemata, in correlation with the functional importance of the skeletal part of the wall.

There are four functional toes in front and three behind; while the calcaneum, unlike that of the other three groups, articulates with the fibula.

They had a journey to make together before they were in a functional relationship, but they'd never have that chance, if he didn't find a way to buy them all time.

Both right and left testes are functional.

She was happy to be functional, though that wasn't likely going to last long.

It's been my experience that watching people get killed in front of you tends to leave you more traumatized than functional, and I need you functional.

Examples of physiological hypertrophy are found in the ovaries, uterus and mammary glands, where there is an increased functional activity required at the period of gestation.

From the differential coefficients of the y's with regard to the x's we form the functional.

By these, and other instruments of precision, such as the thermometer, of which we have already spok en, the eminently scientific discipline of the measurement of functional movements, so difficult in the complex science of biology, has been cultivated.

Whoever attacked didn't want survivors or to destroy a perfectly functional facility.

An arrangement of great functional importance in regard to the venous system must now be described, which was shown in 1883 by Lankester to be common to Limulus and Scorpio.

The term hypertrophy is used when the individual tissue elements become bigger to meet the demands of greater functional activity; hyperplasia, if there is an increase in the number of these elements; and pseudo-hypertrophy, when the specific tissue element is largely replaced by another tissue.

Within the cytoplasm are found manifestations of functional activity, in the form of digestive vacuoles, granules, fat, glycogen, pigment, and foreign bodies.

Hansemann's "anaplasia " hypothesis seeks to find an explanation of the formation of new growths in the absence of the histological differentiation of the cell associated with a corresponding increase in its proliferative power and a suspension, or loss, of its functional activity.

We have analogies to this in the two nuclei of some of the protozoa, the one being solely for the purpose of propagation, the other being associated with the functional activities of the cell.

The supply of reserve teeth is indefinite; frequently one or two are lying ready and of equal size to the functional fangs.

Some have functional fore-limbs but mere vestiges of hind-limbs; in others this condition is reversed.

It was nothing but a long rope with a piece of broomstick tied to the bottom, but it was functional.

Under the general heading "Analysis" occur the subheadings "Foundations of Analysis," with the topics theory of functions of real variables, series and other infinite processes, principles and elements of the differential and of the integral calculus, definite integrals, and calculus of variations; "Theory of Functions of Complex Variables," with the topics functions of one variable and of several variables; "Algebraic Functions and their Integrals," with the topics algebraic functions of one and of several variables, elliptic functions and single theta functions, Abelian integrals; "Other Special Functions," with the topics Euler's, Legendre's, Bessel's and automorphic functions; "Differential Equations," with the topics existence theorems, methods of solution, general theory; "Differential Forms and Differential Invariants," with the topics differential forms, including Pfaffians, transformation of differential forms, including tangential (or contact) transformations, differential invariants; "Analytical Methods connected with Physical Subjects," with the topics harmonic analysis, Fourier's series, the differential equations of applied mathematics, Dirichlet's problem; "Difference Equations and Functional Equations," with the topics recurring series, solution of equations of finite differences and functional equations.

Functional determinants were first investigated by Jacobi in a work De Determinantibus Functionalibus.

If, from whatever cause, any of the chromatin loops belonging to the functional order be lost the descendants of such a cell, being unable to restore these loops, will be minus the functional attributes associated with the lost elements.

In its least differentiated form the avicularium occupies the place of an ordinary zooecium ("vicarious avicularium"), from which it is distinguished by the greater development of the operculum and its muscles, while the polypide is normally not functional.

Hagen not to be functional in the adult insect - they are merely survivals from the aquatic nymphal stage.

The May-flies are remarkably primitive in certain of their characters, notably the elongate cerci, the paired, entirely mesodermal genital ducts, and the occurrence of an ecdysis after the acquisition of functional wings.

Among the Gastropoda, in the Aspidobranchia, there is no genital duct, and the gonad opens into the right kidney; in the more modified forms the left kidney alone is functional, the right has been converted into the genital duct.

Rodents may be characterized as terrestrial, or in some cases arboreal or aquatic, placental mammals of small or medium size, with a milk and a permanent series of teeth, plantigrade or partially plantigrade, and generally five-toed, clawed (rarely nailed or semi hoofed) feet, clavicles or collar-bones (occasionally imperfect or rudimentary), no canine teeth, and a single pair of lower incisors, opposed by only one similar and functional pair in the upper jaw.

The other genera have five toes, of which only the middle three are functional, and smooth incisors.

In the bamboo-rats, Rhizomys, from the Indo-Malay countries, China and Tibet, as well as in the closely allied East African Tachyoryctes, the eyes are, however, functional, and the head is rounded.

They are preceded by functional, rooted milk-teeth.

It is indicated in paralyses (chiefly functional), and is most valuable in the treatment of post-diphtheritic paralysis.

The degree of fertility varies greatly according to external conditions, the structural and functional arrangements just alluded to, and other causes which may roughly be called constitutional.

Functional male and female organs have been shown to exist in Pyronema and Boudiera; in Lachnea stercorea both ascogonia and antheridia a are present, but the antheridium a1 is non-functional, the ascogonial _s- - (fema l e) nuclei fusing in pairs; /'y' this is also the case' in Humaria /;' h; granulate and Ascobolus furfurs -./ '"aceus, where the antheridium is _ / /, - entirely absent.

Whether examined by functional or by structural features, the conducting paths of the nervous system, traced from beginning to end, never terminate in the centres of that system, but pass through them.

In the natural order Rosaceae, the series Querciflorae, and the very anomalous genus Casuarina and others, instead of a single macrospore a more or less extensive sporogenous tissue is formed, but only one cell proceeds to the formation of a functional female cell.

In such cases the flowers, so far as their functional capabilities are concerned, are usually abortive.

The Center has a major program of structural and functional studies on several classes of membrane proteins, including membrane transporters and ion channels.

Sulfur is the best element for rearrangement reactions and allows us to employ the novel strategy of migrating functional groups.

It 's functional and certainly clear, but as with the picture it 's pretty run-of-the-mill stuff.

Your baby doesn't need to be the latest fashions, but you do want him to look cute and have clothes that are functional.

The lateral hind-toes (that is to say the second and fifth of the typical series) had, however, become rudimentary; although it is probable that the corresponding digits of the forelimb were functional, so that this foot was four-toed.

The tail is very long; and the feet have five functional toes, with complete but short metacarpals or metatarsals.

Homacodon was an animal of the size of a rabbit, with five toes (of which only five were functional to each foot) and 44 teeth, of which the molars are tuberculated (bunodont), with six columns on those of the upper jaw; the premolars being of a cutting type.

In all the more typical members of the family the three middle metatarsals of the long hind-legs are fused into a cannon-bone; and in the true jerboas of the genus Jaculus the two lateral toes, with their supporting metatarsals, are lost, although they are present in the alactagas (Alactaga), in which, however, as in certain allied genera, only the three middle toes are functional.

The formal conception of pure logic, then, is modified by Lotze in such a way as not only to be compatible with a view of the structural and functional adequacy of thought to that which at every point at which we take thinking is still distinguishable from thought, but even inevitably to suggest it.

The lesions mentioned are in many instances necessarily accompanied by functional disturbances or clinical symptoms, symptoms. varying according to site, and to the nature and degree of the affection.

The action of toxins on various glands, producing diminished or increased functional activity, has a close analogy to that of certain drugs.

The Phyllopoda are the only Crustacea in which distinct and functional gnathobasic processes are found on appendages far removed from the mouth.