function /fungkˈshən or fungˈshən/

1. An activity appropriate to any person or thing
2. Duty peculiar to any office or job
3. Faculty or the exercise of faculty
4. The peculiar office of anything
5. A profession (obsolete)
6. A solemn service
7. A ceremony
8. A social gathering
9. A set of logical operations which can be called from another program or system and which returns a value to the caller (computing)
10. A variable so connected with another that for any value of the one there is a corresponding value for the other (mathematics)
11. 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)
12. An event, etc dependent on some other factor or factors
13. The technical term for the vital activity of an organ, tissue, or cell (physiology)
14. The part played by a linguistic form in a construction, or by a form or form class in constructions in general (linguistics)
15. The doing of a thing (obsolete)
16. Performance (obsolete)
17. Activity (obsolete)

1. To perform a function
2. To act
3. To operate, esp to expected standards
4. To work

funcˈtional adjective

1. Relating to or performed by functions (mathematics)
2. (of disease) characterized by impairment of function, not of organs
3. Designed with special regard to purpose and practical use, often to the detriment of decorative qualities
4. Serving a function

funcˈtionalism noun

1. The theory or practice of adapting method, form, materials, etc primarily with regard to the purpose in hand
2. 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

1. The capacity to be functional or practical
2. Purpose
3. A specific application of a computer program

funcˈtionally adverb

funcˈtionary noun

1. A person who discharges any duty
2. 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

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