Definitions for function
function
func·tion
Spelling: [fuhngk-shuh n]
IPA: /ˈfʌŋk ʃən/
Function is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 159 anagrams from letters in function (cfinnotu).
Definitions for function
noun
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the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
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any ceremonious public or social gathering or occasion.
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a factor related to or dependent upon other factors:
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Mathematics.
Also called correspondence, map, mapping, transformation. a relation between two sets in which one element of the second set is assigned to each element of the first set, as the expression y = x 2 ; operator.
Also called multiple-value function. a relation between two sets in which two or more elements of the second set are assigned to each element of the first set, as y 2 = x 2 , which assigns to every x the two values y = + x and y = − x.
a set of ordered pairs in which none of the first elements of the pairs appears twice.
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Geometry.
a formula expressing a relation between the angles of a triangle and its sides, as sine or cosine.
hyperbolic function.
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Grammar.
the grammatical role a linguistic form has or the position it occupies in a particular construction.
the grammatical roles or the positions of a linguistic form or form class collectively.
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Sociology. the contribution made by a sociocultural phenomenon to an ongoing social system.
verb (used without object)
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to perform a specified action or activity; work; operate:
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to have or exercise a function; serve:
Origin of function
1525-35; Latin functiōn- (stem of functiō) a performance, execution, equivalent to funct(us) (past participle of fungī) performed, executed + -iōn- -ion
Examples for function
Duncan described the function in a letter to Kellogg as the time of his young life.
Entitled “Please Go Home,” the parody stars Daniel Franzese, best known as the “too gay to function” Damian from Mean Girls.
Between work and books and movies and family and boyfriends, I do not understand how they function.
Fast forward two centuries, and all these checks have long since ceased to function.
But is there nothing to be said of the function of the imagination from the Greek side of the question?
For some reason it's very important to them that it continues to function.
Literature and art, at their noblest, function in that instinctive way.
We were just about ready to function in a limited capacity.
Openness might be a function of sexuality and gender, as well.
Doubtless, too, he would be tired after his journey and disinclined for such a function.