Definition of function

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Function (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind..

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Functionally :: Functionally (adv.) In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
Biorgan :: Biorgan (n.) A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.
Malady :: Malady (n.) Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder..
Official :: Official (n.) Discharging an office or function.
Senate :: Senate (n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
Internuncioship :: Internuncioship (n.) The office or function of an internuncio.
Homology :: Homology (n.) Correspondence or relation in type of structure in contradistinction to similarity of function; as, the relation in structure between the leg and arm of a man; or that between the arm of a man, the fore leg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the fin of a fish, all these organs being modifications of one type of structure..
Bion :: Bion (p. pr.) The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon..
Retineum :: Retineum (n.) That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate.
Dicast :: Dicast (n.) A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modern juryman.
Parameter :: Parameter (n.) A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family..
Amplitude :: Amplitude (n.) An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions.
Tone :: Tone (n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease..
Respiratory :: Respiratory (a.) Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as, the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function; respiratory changes..
Vicarious :: Vicarious (prep.) Acting as a substitute; -- said of abnormal action which replaces a suppressed normal function; as, vicarious hemorrhage replacing menstruation..
Natural :: Natural (a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1..
Discriminant :: Discriminant (n.) The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.
Mortify :: Mortify (v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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..
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