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Function Meaning in French |
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fonction
, réception
, cérémonie publique
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Function
- (v. i.) Alt. of Functionate
- (n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
- (n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
- (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
- (n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
- (n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
- (n.) A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.
- (n.) A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.
Synonyms:
Affair, Go, Occasion, Office, Officiate, Operate, Part, Procedure, Purpose, Role, Routine, Run, Serve, Use, Work,
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• Functional
- (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
- (a.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
Synonyms:
Operable, Operative, Running, Usable, Working,
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• Functionate
- (v. i.) To execute or perform a function; to transact ones regular or appointed business.
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jersey, ere, instantaneous, travesty, traverse, compliance, limpet, fan, per capita, zest, regale, refusal, weird, weir, beggary, refuge, refuel, refresh, ramify, rally, lastly, knotty, knockabout, knock up, traumatic, trauma, trappist, trappings, rags, trap, transverse, transmit, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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