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UK
/fˈʌŋkʃən/
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[ US /ˈfəŋkʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈfəŋkʃən/ ]
VERB
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serve a purpose, role, or function
The tree stump serves as a table
The female students served as a control group
This table would serve very well
His freedom served him well
The table functions as a desk -
perform as expected when applied
The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in
This old radio doesn't work anymore
Does this old car still run well? -
perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function
His wife officiated as his private secretary
NOUN
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function)
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the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
play its role
the government must do its part
the function of a teacher -
a formal or official social gathering or ceremony
it was a black-tie function -
what something is used for
the function of an auger is to bore holes
ballet is beautiful but what use is it? -
a vaguely specified social event
a seemingly endless round of social functions
the party was quite an affair
an occasion arranged to honor the president -
a relation such that one thing is dependent on another
height is a function of age
price is a function of supply and demand
How To Use function In A Sentence
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- I've got a couple of equipment malfunctions which I'm struggling with.
- Objective:To observe the effects of transurethral vaporization for prostate (TVP) and suprapubic prostatectomy (SPP) on sexual function of the patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
- He can dissolve the parliament, and nominate people to all the key state functions.
- Construction here would include offices, retail and hotels with the objective of integrating the docklands with the city centre and extending its functions to the east.
- Fitness functions include a simple linear problem for binary strings and classification of data sets which are dynamically loaded from a specified data file.
- Dysfunctional families seem to be occupying the minds of Scotland's visiting choreographers.
- The digital flux that frames our experience of physical and socio-political realities functions through continuous additions, subtractions, and disappearances.
- Administration. Quality assurance must be integrated into local health care management functions. 3.
- For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins.