Definition of function

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Function (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body..

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Functional :: Functional (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official..
Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The integral used in obtaining the area bounded by a curve; hence, the definite integral of the product of any function of one variable into the differential of that variable..
Bioplasm :: Bioplasm (n.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.
Androspore :: Androspore (n.) A spore of some algae, which has male functions..
Organize :: Organize (v. t.) To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get into working order; -- applied to products of the human intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a science, a government, an army, a war, etc..
Coversed Sine :: Coversed sine () The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Official :: Official (n.) Discharging an office or function.
Psychosis :: Psychosis (n.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident organic changes..
Physiogeny :: Physiogeny (n.) The germ history of the functions, or the history of the development of vital activities, in the individual, being one of the branches of ontogeny. See Morphogeny..
Officiate :: Officiate (v. t.) To discharge, perform, or supply, as an official duty or function..
Function :: Function (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance..
Sleep :: Sleep (v. i.) A natural and healthy, but temporary and periodical, suspension of the functions of the organs of sense, as well as of those of the voluntary and rational soul; that state of the animal in which there is a lessened acuteness of sensory perception, a confusion of ideas, and a loss of mental control, followed by a more or less unconscious state..
Periodoscope :: Periodoscope (n.) A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women.
Rotate :: Rotate (v. i.) To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office..
Pain :: Pain (n.) Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart..
Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
Lesion :: Lesion (n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
Authorship :: Authorship (n.) The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.
Trigonometry :: Trigonometry (n.) That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles, which the methods of deducing from certain given parts other required parts, and also of the general relations which exist between the trigonometrical functions of arcs or angles..
Monopathy :: Monopathy (n.) Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function.
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