function

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. What something does or is used for.
2. A professional or official position.
3. An official or social occasion.
4. (slang) An official or social occasion.
5. Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
6. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
7. A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
8. A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
9. The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
10. The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
11. The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To have a function.
2. (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

Teenoorgestelde van

malfunction

Sinonieme

work

operate

role

event

office

🏢

run

job

act

duty

post

use

operation

task

position

action

matter

go

purpose

perform

capacity

serve

part

officiate

activity

procedure

facility

ceremony

celebration

🎉

social occasion

effect

service

party

🥳

mission

mapping

festivities

attendance

assignment

affair

occurrence

occasion

subprogram

subroutine

talent

duties

play

ability

appointment

feature

application

official duty

Vertalings

fonction

funzione

Funktion

función

função

functie

fonctionner

funció

funktionieren

funcionar

funzionare

funcionar

Aufgabe

impiego

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈfʌŋ(k)ʃən/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functiō (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg- (“to enjoy”).

Sinne

A classic example of a one-way function is multiplication of very large prime numbers .

Underground sprinklers function through means of basic electronic and hydraulic technology .

The USB device didn't function correctly .

The initial Quicken software did not function as a " double-entry " accounting package .

The coherence of two waves expresses how well correlated the waves are as quantified by the cross-correlation function .