释义 |
function /fungkˈshən or fungˈshən/ noun- An activity appropriate to any person or thing
- Duty peculiar to any office or job
- Faculty or the exercise of faculty
- The peculiar office of anything
- A profession (obsolete)
- A solemn service
- A ceremony
- A social gathering
- A set of logical operations which can be called from another program or system and which returns a value to the caller (computing)
- A variable so connected with another that for any value of the one there is a corresponding value for the other (mathematics)
- A correspondence between two sets of variables such that each member of one set can be related to one particular member of the other set (mathematics or logic)
- An event, etc dependent on some other factor or factors
- The technical term for the vital activity of an organ, tissue, or cell (physiology)
- The part played by a linguistic form in a construction, or by a form or form class in constructions in general (linguistics)
- The doing of a thing (obsolete)
- Performance (obsolete)
- Activity (obsolete)
intransitive verb- To perform a function
- To act
- To operate, esp to expected standards
- To work
ORIGIN: OFr, from L functiō, -ōnis, from fungī, functus to perform funcˈtional adjective - Relating to or performed by functions (mathematics)
- (of disease) characterized by impairment of function, not of organs
- Designed with special regard to purpose and practical use, often to the detriment of decorative qualities
- Serving a function
funcˈtionalism noun - The theory or practice of adapting method, form, materials, etc primarily with regard to the purpose in hand
- The theory or practice of assessing social institutions, customs, etc in terms of the part they play in maintaining the social system
funcˈtionalist noun functionalˈity noun - The capacity to be functional or practical
- Purpose
- A specific application of a computer program
funcˈtionally adverb funcˈtionary noun - A person who discharges any duty
- A person who holds an office
funcˈtionate intransitive verb (obsolete) To perform a function funcˈtionless adjective Having no function functional food noun Food with additives providing extra nutritional value functional group noun (chem) The group of atoms in a compound that determines its chemical behaviour function key noun (computing) One of a series of keys that will perform a particular function in a program function word noun (linguistics) A word, such as an article or auxiliary, which has little or no meaning apart from the grammatical concept it expresses |