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function

/fuhngk-shuhn/US // ˈfʌŋk ʃən //UK // (ˈfʌŋkʃən) //

功能,职能,功能简介,功能介绍

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
    • : any ceremonious public or social gathering or occasion.
    • : a factor related to or dependent upon other factors: Price is a function of supply and demand.
    • : Mathematics. Also called correspondence, map, mapping, transformation. a relation between two sets in which one element of the second set is assigned to each element of the first set, as the expression y = x2; operator.Also called multiple-value function. a relation between two sets in which two or more elements of the second set are assigned to each element of the first set, as y2 = x2, which assigns to every x the two values y = +x and y = −x.a set of ordered pairs in which none of the first elements of the pairs appears twice.
    • : Geometry. a formula expressing a relation between the angles of a triangle and its sides, as sine or cosine.hyperbolic function.
    • : Grammar. the grammatical role a linguistic form has or the position it occupies in a particular construction.the grammatical roles or the positions of a linguistic form or form class collectively.
    • : Sociology. the contribution made by a sociocultural phenomenon to an ongoing social system.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to perform a specified action or activity; work; operate: The computer isn't functioning now. He rarely functions before noon.
    • : to have or exercise a function; serve: In earlier English the present tense often functioned as a future. This orange crate can function as a chair.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncapacity, job
Forms: functioned, functioning, functions
verbperform, work
Forms: functioned, functioning, functions

Examples

  • Not every website has one, and even the ones that do have very surface-level functions.

  • In part, this was a function of some remaining uncertainty about how the virus spread most effectively.

  • Excipients are critical materials and serve a broad variety of functions.

  • For example, shipping, and social listening sound like siloed functions, but actually they’re closely related.

  • That’s because daily exercise not only helps kids stay physically and emotionally healthy, it also boosts cognitive function.

  • But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.

  • The iPad was an even bigger hit, especially as it had a new function that allowed him to play the drawing back.

  • Openness might be a function of sexuality and gender, as well.

  • Entitled “Please Go Home,” the parody stars Daniel Franzese, best known as the “too gay to function” Damian from Mean Girls.

  • Sex is a basic human function; a physiological drive we cannot ignore.

  • To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.

  • Little girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.

  • This is hardly a function—parties even in the big political country-houses are more or less informal.

  • No definite proof of this position has, however, as yet been adduced, and the function of the compound is entirely unknown.

  • After the formal proclamation was issued the function terminated with a banquet given to 200 insurgent notabilities.