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- Function - n. - The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
- Function - 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.
- Function - 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.
- Function - n. - The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
- Function - 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.
- Function - v. i. - Alt. of Functionate
- Functional - a. - Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
- Functional - a. - Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
- Functionalize - v. t. - To assign to some function or office.
- Functionally - adv. - In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
- Functionaries - pl. - of Functionary
- Functionary - n. - One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
- Functionate - v. i. - To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
- Functionless - a. - Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
- Alimentary - a. - Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
- Embassy - n. - The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.
- Water tube - - One of a system of tubular excretory organs having external openings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to be analogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust. under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.
- Spleen - n. - A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
- Covariant - n. - A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.
- Quantic - n. - A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic.
- Strut - n. - Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie.
- Factorial - n. - A name given to the factors of a continued product when the former are derivable from one and the same function F(x) by successively imparting a constant increment or decrement h to the independent variable. Thus the product F(x).F(x + h).F(x + 2h) . . . F[x + (n-1)h] is called a factorial term, and its several factors take the name of factorials.
- Hypoderma - n. - A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.
- Glycogenic - a. - Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver.
- Counselorship - n. - The function and rank or office of a counselor.
- Retineum - n. - That part of the eye of an invertebrate which corresponds in function with the retina of a vertebrate.
- Branchiopoda - n. pl. - An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet of branchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills. It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia, and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also called Phyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in a broader sense.
- Virial - n. - A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics.
- Presidency - n. - The function or condition of one who presides; superintendence; control and care.
- Functionary - n. - One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.
- Excito-secretory - a. - Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action.
- Function - 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.
- Function - 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.
- Auditorship - n. - The office or function of auditor.
- Derivative - n. - A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.
- Metamorphosis - n. - A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation.
- Discriminant - n. - The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.
- Alimentation - n. - The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
- Assessorship - n. - The office or function of an assessor.
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- G1319 διδασκαλία - 1319 διδασκαλία - ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΊΑ - - didaskalía - did-as-kal-ee'-ah - from διδάσκαλος; instruction (the function or the information):--doctrine, learning, teaching. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G2405 ἱερατεία - 2405 ἱερατεία - ἹΕΡΑΤΕΊΑ - - hierateía - hee-er-at-i'-ah - from ἱερατεύω; priestliness, i.e. the sacerdotal function:--office of the priesthood, priest's office. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G2407 ἱερατεύω - 2407 ἱερατεύω - ἹΕΡΑΤΕΎΩ - - hierateúō - hee-er-at-yoo'-o - prolongation from ἱερεύς; to be a priest, i.e. perform his functions:--execute the priest's office. - Verb - greek
- G2917 κρίμα - 2917 κρίμα - ΚΡΊΜΑ - - kríma - kree'-mah - from κρίνω; a decision (the function or the effect, for or against ("crime")):--avenge, condemned, condemnation, damnation, + go to law, judgment. - Noun Neuter - greek
- G3008 λειτουργέω - 3008 λειτουργέω - ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΈΩ - - leitourgéō - li-toorg-eh'-o - from λειτουργός; to be a public servant, i.e. (by analogy) to perform religious or charitable functions (worship, obey, relieve):--minister. - Verb - greek
- G3009 λειτουργία - 3009 λειτουργία - ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΊΑ - - leitourgía - li-toorg-ee'-ah - from λειτουργέω; public function (as priest ("liturgy") or almsgiver):--ministration(-try), service. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G3010 λειτουργικός - 3010 λειτουργικός - ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΌΣ - - leitourgikós - li-toorg-ik-os' - from the same as λειτουργέω; functional publicly ("liturgic"); i.e. beneficient:--ministering. - Adjective - greek
- G3011 λειτουργός - 3011 λειτουργός - ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΌΣ - - leitourgós - li-toorg-os' - from a derivative of λαός and ἔργον; a public servant, i.e. a functionary in the Temple or Gospel, or (genitive case) a worshipper (of God) or benefactor (of man):--minister(-ed). - Noun Masculine - greek
- G4234 πρᾶξις - 4234 πρᾶξις - ΠΡᾶΞΙΣ - - prâxis - prax'-is - from πράσσω; practice, i.e. (concretely) an act; by extension, a function:--deed, office, work. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H7307 רוּחַ - 7307 רוּחַ - רוּחַ - - rûwach - roo'-akh - from רוּחַ; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions); air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side, spirit(-ual), tempest, [idiom] vain, (whirl-) wind(-y). - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7308 רוּחַ - 7308 רוּחַ - רוּחַ - - rûwach - roo'-akh - (Aramaic) corresponding to רוּחַ; {wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)}; mind, spirit, wind. - Noun Feminine - arc
- G4754 στρατεύομαι - 4754 στρατεύομαι - ΣΤΡΑΤΕΎΟΜΑΙ - - strateúomai - strat-yoo'-om-ahee - middle voice from the base of στρατιά; to serve in a military campaign; figuratively, to execute the apostolate (with its arduous duties and functions), to contend with carnal inclinations:--soldier, (go to) war(-fare). - Verb - greek