function

Meanings

Noun

• What something does or is used for.
• A professional or official position.
• An official or social occasion.
• Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
• A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
• A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
• A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
• The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
• The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
• The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.

Verb

• To have a function.
• To carry out a function; to be in action.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• luminosity function
• mass function
• phase function
• source function
• en
• anonymous function
• Boolean function
• built-in function
• computable function
• concave function
• constructor function
• convex function
• error function
• first-class function
• second-class function
• predefined function
• recursive function
• restricted function
• set function
• switch function
• third-class function
• transition function
• user-defined function
• AND function
• NOR function
• NOT function
• OR function
• propositional function
• switching function
• truth function
• line function
• staff function
• additive function
• aggregate function
• algebraic function
• alternating function
• analytic function
• Baire function
• bei function
• ber function
• Bessel function
• beta function
• Bloch function
• bounded function
• boxcar function
• Brillouin function
• Cantor function
• characteristic function
• Chebyshev function
• circular function
• comparable function
• complementary function
• composite function
• connect function
• constant function
• constraint function
• contiguous function
• continuous function
• correlation function
• cost function
• critical function
• cylinder function
• decreasing function
• delta function
• density function
• describing function
• differentiable function
• discriminant function
• dissipation function
• distance function
• distribution function
• driving-point function
• eigenfunction
• elementary function
• Emden function
• entire function
• Euler's phi function
• even function
• explicit function
• exponential function
• form function
• Fowler function
• frontogenetic function
• gamma function
• generating function
• Green's function
• Hamiltonian function
• Hankel function
• harmonic function
• hei function
• her function
• Hildebrand function
• homogeneous function
• Hugoniot function
• hyperbolic function
• hypergeometric function
• identity function
• implicit function
• impulse function
• incidence function
• increasing function
• independent function
• influence function
• inner function
• integrable function
• integral function
• invariant function
• inverse function
• inverting function
• J function
• jump function
• kei function
• ker function
• Koebe function
• Lagrangian function
• Lamé function
• Legendre function
• Leverett function
• linear function
• Liouville function
• loss function
• Lyapunov function
• Massieu function
• Mathieu function
• measurable function
• membership function
• meromorphic function
• microspec function
• Möbius function
• monotone function
• multilinear function
• natural function
• Neumann function
• normalized function
• normalized support function
• number-theoretic function
• objective function
• odd function
• orthogonal function
• orthonormal function
• one-way function
• partial function
• partition function
• Patterson function
• penalty function
• periodic function
• Planck function
• point function
• polynomial function
• power function
• principal function
• psi function
• quadratic function
• Rademacher function
• random function
• rational function
• real function
• regular function
• Riemann function
• Riemann P function
• sample function
• scalar function
• self-organizing function
• sensitivity function
• shear-viscosity function
• sigma function
• signum function
• simple function
• single-valued function
• sinusoidal function
• Smarandache function
• special function
• step function
• stream function
• stress function
• summable function
• support function
• symmetric function
• test function
• theta function
• torsion function
• transcendental function
• transfer function
• transmission function
• trigonometric function
• trigonometric cofunction
• unit function
• universal wavelength function
• variadic function
• vector function
• Wannier function
• Weierstrass function
• weight function
• zeta function
• Airy function
• excitation function
• information function of a partition
• Langevin function
• nuclear response function
• scattering function
• spectral function
• wave function
• work function
• control function

Origin

• From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō, from functus, perfect participle of fungor.