wikipedia|dab=function
English

Etymology
From MF. fonction < OF. function#Old French|function < L. functio gen. functionis "performance, execution" < L. functus pp. of fungi "perform, execute, discharge".

Pronunciation
IPA|/�f��k.��n/, SAMPA|/"fVNkS@n/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��k��n|-��k��n

Noun
en-noun

1. What something does or is used for.
2. A professional or official position.
3. An official or social occasion.
4. A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
5. maths A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
6. computing A routine that returns a result.
7. biology The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
8. chemistry The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.

Synonyms
i-c|what something does or is used for aim, intention, purpose, role, use
i-c|professional or official position occupation, office, part, role
i-c|official or social occasion affair, occasion, social occasion, social function
i-c|analysis: many-to-one relation many-to-one map, many-to-one mapping, mathematical function, operation (if it takes two arguments), transformation
i-c|computing: routine that returns a result procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine

Related terms
functor

Derived terms
trans-top|terms derived from "function"
top3
absolutely continuous function
acidity function
adaptive-control function
additive function
additive set function
adjoint wave function
aggregate function
Airy function
Airy stress function
algebraic function
almost-periodic function
alternating function
analytic function
analytical function generator
anatomy of function
AND function
antihyperbolic function
antisymmetric wave function
antisymmetrized wave function
antitrigonometric function
arc-hyperbolic function
autocorrelation function
Baire function
bei function
ber function
Bessel function
beta function
bifunctional
biharmonic function
Bloch function
Boolean function
Borel measurable function
bounded function
boxcar function
Brillouin function
built-in function
Cantor function
characteristic function
circular function
cofunction
comparable function
complementary function
complete class of decision function
composite function
compressadensity function
computable function
concave function
confluent hypergeometric function
conjugate convex function
connect function
constant function
constraint function
contiguous function
continuous function
convex function
cosine function
cost function
countably additive set function
countably subadditive set function
critical function
cross-correlation function
cyclosymmetric function
cylinder function
decreasing function
delta function
density function
describing function
differentiable function
difunctional
digamma function
diode function generator
Dirac wave function
discriminant function
disfunction
dissipation function
driving-point function
dysfunction
effectively computable function
eigenfunction
eigenfunction expansion
Einstein partition function
electron wave function
electronic work function
elementary function
elementary symmetric function
elliptic function
Emden function
entire function
equivalent propositional function
error function
essentially bounded function
Euler's phi function
even function
excitation function
executive ego function
explicit function
exponential density function
exponential function
exponential generating function
feedback transfer function
Fermi-Dirac distribution function
form function
forward transfer function
Fowler function
frontogenetic function
function code
function failure safety
function generator
function key
function multiplier
function space
function switch
mid3
function table
function unit
function-evaluation routine
functional
functionalism
functionality
gamma function
general-purpose function generator
generalized transmission function
generating function
Green's function
Hamiltonian function
Hammett acidity function
Hankel function
harmonic function
Heaviside unit function
hei function
her function
Hildebrand function
homogeneous function
Hugoniot function
hybrid wave function
hyperbolic function
hypergeometric function
identity function
implicit function
implicit function theorem
impulse function
incidence function
incomplete beta function
incomplete gamma function
increasing function
independent function
influence function
information function of a partition
initial mass function
inner function
integrable function
integral function
invariant function
inverse function
inverse function theorem
inverse hyperbolic function
inverse trigonometric function
inverting function
J function
Jacobian elliptic function
jump function
kei function
ker function
Koebe function
Lagrange stream function
Lagrangian function
Lamé function
Lamé wave function
Langevin function
left-continuous function
Legendre function
Leverett function
line function
linear discriminant function
linear function
Liouville function
locally integrable function
logarithmic trigonometric function
logarithmically convex function
loop transfer function
loss function
lower semicontinuous function
luminosity function
Lyapunov function
malfunction
malfunction routine
Massieu function
mathematical function program
Mathieu function
Maxwell's stress function
measurable function
membership function
meromorphic function
microspec function
minimal brain dysfunction syndrome
Minkowski distance function
Möbius function
modified Bessel function
modified Hankel function
moment generating function
momentum wave function
monofunctional compound
monogenic analytic function
monotone function
monotone nondecreasing function
monotone nonincreasing function
monotonic increasing function
Morera's stress function
multifunction array radar
multilinear function
multiplicative number-theoretic function
natural function
Neumann function
nonfunctional packages software
normal density function
normalized function
normalized support function
NOT function
nuclear response function
number-theoretic function
objective function
odd function
optimizing control function
orthogonal function
orthonormal function
mid3
parabolic cylinder function
partial function
partial recursive function
particle distribution function
partition function
Patterson function
penalty function
periodic function
phase function
piecewise-continuous function
Planck function
point characteristic function
point function
Poisson density function
polynomial function
positive linear functional
positive real function
power function
predefined function
principal function
probability density function
probability mass function
programmed function key
proper rational function
propositional function
psi function
pulsed transfer function
quadratic function
Rademacher function
radial distribution function
radicofunctional name
random function
rational function
Rayleigh's dissipation function
real-valued function
recursive function
regular function
regulatory control function
restricted function
Riccati-Bessel function
Riemann function
Riemann P function
Riemann zeta function
sample function
scalar function
scattering function
Schrödinger wave function
self-dual switching function
self-organizing function
sensitivity function
separated-function synchrotron
set function
sharpness function technique
shear-viscosity function
sigma function
simple function
simply periodic function
single-valued function
sinusoidal function
skewed density function
Smarandache function
source function
special function
spectral function
spherical Bessel function
staff function
step function
step-function generator
Stokes stream function
stress function
subadditive function
subadditive set function
subharmonic function
subsine function
summable function
superadditive function
superharmonic function
support function
switch function
switching function
symmetric function
tapped-potentiometer function generator
test function
tetrafunctional molecule
thermionic work function
thermodynamic function of state
theta function
tool-function controller
torsion function
transcendental function
transfer function
transition function
transmission function
trigamma function
trigonometric cofunction
trigonometric function
truth function
Turing computable function
universal transmission function
universal wavelength function
upper semicontinuous function
user-defined function
variable diode function generator
vector function
viscous dissipation function
wave function
Wannier function
Weierstrass function
Weierstrassian elliptic function
weight function
work function

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Translations
trans-top|what something does or is used for
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Czech: t+|cs|funkce|f, t-|cs|ú�el|m
Danish: t-|da|funktion|c
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
Finnish: t+|fi|tehtävä, t+|fi|tarkoitus
French: t-|fr|fonction|f
German: t+|de|Funktion|f, t+|de|Funktionalität|f
Hebrew: he-translation|תפק��|tafkíd m
Irish: t|ga|feidhm|f|xs=Irish
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Italian: t+|it|funzione|f
Japanese: �� (kin�)
Korean: t-|ko|기�|sc=Hang
Kurdish: KUchar|کار, KUchar|کار�بار
Latin: functio f
Norwegian: t-|no|funksjon|m
Portuguese: função f
Swedish: t+|sv|funktion|c, t-|sv|uppgift|c
Russian: t|ru|��нк�и�|f|sc=Cyrl
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trans-top|professional or official position
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Czech: t+|cs|funkce|f
Danish: t-|da|funktion|c
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
German: t+|de|Funktion|f
Hebrew: he-translation|תפק��|tafkíd m
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Irish: t|ga|feidhm|f|xs=Irish
Japanese: �� (shokumu)
Norwegian: t+|no|post|m, t-|no|stilling|m
Portuguese: função f
Swedish: förrättning c, kall n, syssla c, åliggande n,
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trans-top|official or social occasion
Finnish: t+|fi|juhla, t-|fi|tilaisuus
Hebrew: he-translation|��ר�ע|erú`a m
Italian: t+|it|cerimonia|f, t+|it|funzione|f, t+|it|ricevimento|m
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Norwegian: t-|no|tilstelling|m
Swedish: bjudning c, tillställning c
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trans-top|relation where one thing is dependent on another
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Czech: t+|cs|funkce|f
Danish: t-|da|funktion|c
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
Hebrew: he-translation|פ�נקצ��|funktsiá f
Italian: t+|it|funzione|f
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Norwegian: t-|no|funksjon|m
Portuguese: função f
Swedish: t+|sv|funktion|c
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trans-top|mathematics: one-to-one relation
Chinese: ��
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Czech: t+|cs|funkce|f
Danish: t-|da|funktion|c
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
Esperanto: t-|eo|funkcio|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: funktsioon
Finnish: t+|fi|funktio
French: t-|fr|fonction|f
German: t+|de|Funktion|f
Greek, Modern: ��νά��η�η f
Hebrew: he-translation|פ�נקצ��|funktsiá f
Hungarian: t-|hu|függvény
Icelandic: t-|is|fall
Ido: funciono
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Indonesian: fungsi
Irish: t|ga|feidhm|f|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|funzione|f
Japanese: �� (kansū)
Korean: t-|ko|��|sc=Hang
Norwegian: t-|no|funksjon|m
Polish: funkcja
Portuguese: função f
Romanian: t-|ro|funcţie
Russian: ��нк�и�
Spanish: t+|es|función|f
Swedish: t+|sv|funktion
Thai: �ั����ั�
Urdu: <font face="urdu naskh asiatype, times new roman">ع�� &nbsp;کا� &nbsp;�ع�</font>
Ukrainian: �н'�к���
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trans-top|computing: routine that returns a result
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Czech: t+|cs|funkce|f
Danish: t-|da|funktion|c
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
Finnish: t+|fi|funktio
French: t-|fr|fonction|f
German: t+|de|Funktion|f
Hebrew: he-translation|פ�נקצ��|funktsiá f
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Hungarian: t-|hu|függvény
Irish: t|ga|feidhm|f|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|funzione|f
Japanese: �� (kansū)
Norwegian: t-|no|funksjon|m
Portuguese: função f
Swedish: funktion c, subrutin c
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trans-top|biology: physiological activity of an organ or body part
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Czech: t+|cs|funkce|f
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
French: t-|fr|fonction|f
German: t+|de|Funktion|f
Irish: t|ga|feidhm|f|xs=Irish
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Italian: t+|it|funzione|f
Japanese: �� (kin�)
Norwegian: t-|no|funksjon|m
Portuguese: função f
Swedish: t+|sv|funktion|c
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trans-top|chemistry: characteristic behavior of a chemical compound
Croatian: t-|hr|funkcija|f
Dutch: t+|nl|functie|f
Italian: t+|it|funzione|f
Japanese: �� (kin�)
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Swedish: t+|sv|funktion|c
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ttbc|Hungarian: funkció f (1, 2, 3)
ttbc|Interlingua: #Interlingua|function (1, 2, 3)
ttbc|Latin: functio f
ttbc|Polish: funkcja f (1, 3)

Intransitive verb
rfc-trverb|Intransitive verb
en-verb

1. to have a function
2. to carry on a function; to be in action

Synonyms
i-c|to have a function officiate, serve
i-c|to carry on a function go, operate, run, work

Antonyms
i-c|to carry on a function malfunction

Related terms
functional
dysfunction, dysfunctional

Translations
trans-top|to have a function
Danish: t-|da|fungere
Dutch: fungeren, dienen
Finnish: t+|fi|toimia
Hebrew: he-translation|�תפק�|letafkéd
Hungarian: -ra/-re való, -ra/-re szolgál
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Irish: t|ga|feidhmigh|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|funzionare
Japanese: ���� (say�-suru), �� (���, ugoku)
Portuguese: t+|pt|funcionar
Swedish: fungera, tjänstgöra, uppträda, verka
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trans-top|to carry on a function
Danish: t-|da|fungere, t-|da|virke
Dutch: functioneren
Finnish: käydä (olla käynnissä)
French: t+|fr|fonctionner
German: funktionieren, slang funzen
Hebrew: he-translation|�תפק�|letafkéd, he-translation|�פע��|lif`ól
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Hungarian: t-|hu|működik
Irish: t|ga|feidhmigh|xs=Irish
Italian: t+|it|funzionare
Japanese: ���� (kin�-suru)
Romanian: t-|ro|funcţiona
Swedish: fungera, tjänstgöra
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Translations to be checked
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ttbc|German: funktionieren
ttbc|Polish: dzia�a�, funkcjonowa�

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ja:function
pl:function
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fi:function
sv:function
ta:function
te:function
vi:function
tr:function
uk:function
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