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Words related to function

Related / Similar Words: office, part, role, purpose, use, routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, affair, occasion, social occasion, social function, mathematical function, officiate, work, operate, go, run, serve

Definition:

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role";

what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?";

a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program;

a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions";

a formal or official social gathering or ceremony; "it was a black-tie function";

a relation such that one thing is dependent on another; "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand";

a mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set;

perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function; "His wife officiated as his private secretary";

perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won''t go unless it''s plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn''t work anymore";

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";

Hyponyms: capacity, hat, portfolio, stead, position, place, lieu, second fiddle, raison d'etre, cataloged procedure, contingency procedure, library routine, random number generator, recursive routine, reusable routine, supervisory routine, executive routine, tracing routine, utility routine, service routine, party, celebration, jubilation, ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance, fundraiser, photo opportunity, photo op, sleepover, inverse function, Kronecker delta, metric function, metric, transformation, mapping, map, correspondence, operator, trigonometric function, circular function, threshold function, exponential, exponential function, double, roll, run, cut, service, serve, prelude, act as

Grouped Verbs: run, work, service, serve

Attributes: functional, nonfunctional

Part Meronyms: program, programme, computer program, computer programme

Derivational Morphology: officiate, serve, office, part, role, official, functionary, officiation, umpirage, officiating, refereeing, power, position, post, berth, spot, billet, place, situation, operation, functioning, performance, procedure, purpose, use

Language Translations:
Chinese: 函数		Croatian: funkcija
Danish: fungere and funktion		Dutch: functie and functioneren
Esperanto: funkcio		Estonian: funktsioon
Finnish: funktio and käydä and tehtävä		French: fonction and fonctionner
German: Funktion and funktionieren		Hungarian: függvény and funkció and működik
Icelandic: fall		Ido: funciono
Indonesian: fungsi		Irish: feidhm and feidhmigh
Italian: funzionare and funzione		Japanese: 職務 and 関数 and 機能 and 機能する
Korean: 기능 and 함수		Latin: functio
Norwegian: funksjon and post		Polish: funkcja
Portuguese: função		Romanian: funcţie and funcţiona
Russian: функция		Spanish: función
Swedish: förrättning and fungera and funktion		Thai: ฟังก์ชัน
Ukrainian: ін'єкція		Urdu: عمل

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