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function

Function is a 8 letter word which starts with the letter F and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(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.) 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.

Syllable Information

The word function is a 8 letter word that has 2 syllable 's . The syllable division for function is: func-tion


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