Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word FUNCTION

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Definitions of FUNCTION

1. What something does or is used for.
2. A professional or official position.
3. An official or social occasion.
4. Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
5. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
6. (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
7. (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
8. (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
9. (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
10. (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
11. (intransitive) To have a function.
12. (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

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Examples of Using FUNCTION in a Sentence

• This function describes an electron's charge distribution around the atom's nucleus, and can be used to calculate the probability of finding an electron in a specific region around the nucleus.
• Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature".
• Usually, this involves determining a function that relates the size of an algorithm's input to the number of steps it takes (its time complexity) or the number of storage locations it uses (its space complexity).
• Autocorrelation, sometimes known as serial correlation in the discrete time case, is the correlation of a signal with a delayed copy of itself as a function of delay.
• Antiderivatives are related to definite integrals through the second fundamental theorem of calculus: the definite integral of a function over a closed interval where the function is Riemann integrable is equal to the difference between the values of an antiderivative evaluated at the endpoints of the interval.
• In computability theory, the Ackermann function, named after Wilhelm Ackermann, is one of the simplest and earliest-discovered examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.
• The arithmetic–geometric mean can be extended to complex numbers and, when the branches of the square root are allowed to be taken inconsistently, generally it is a multivalued function.
• In number theory, an arithmetic, arithmetical, or number-theoretic function is generally any function f(n) whose domain is the positive integers and whose range is a subset of the complex numbers.
• That is, s(a)=b and s(b)=a, where s(n)=σ(n)-n is equal to the sum of positive divisors of n except n itself (see also divisor function).
• The school became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify individual artistic vision with the principles of mass production and emphasis on function.
• A bijection, bijective function, or one-to-one correspondence between two mathematical sets is a function such that each element of the second set (the codomain) is the image of exactly one element of the first set (the domain).
• In mathematics, a binary function (also called bivariate function, or function of two variables) is a function that takes two inputs.
• More specifically, a binary operation on a set is a binary function whose two domains and the codomain are the same set.
• In mathematics, the Borsuk–Ulam theorem states that every continuous function from an n-sphere into Euclidean n-space maps some pair of antipodal points to the same point.
• In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution) is a probability distribution or probability measure that gives the probability that a system will be in a certain state as a function of that state's energy and the temperature of the system.
• Every cell consists of cytoplasm enclosed within a membrane; many cells contain organelles, each with a specific function.
• In mathematics, a bilinear map is a function combining elements of two vector spaces to yield an element of a third vector space, and is linear in each of its arguments.
• Because the break function is usually combined with the pause function on one key since the introduction of the IBM Model M 101-key keyboard in 1985, the Break key is also called the Pause key.
• The Bernoulli numbers appear in (and can be defined by) the Taylor series expansions of the tangent and hyperbolic tangent functions, in Faulhaber's formula for the sum of m-th powers of the first n positive integers, in the Euler–Maclaurin formula, and in expressions for certain values of the Riemann zeta function.
• Moreover, important formulas like Paul Lévy's inversion formula for the characteristic function also rely on the "less than or equal" formulation.

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