Function

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Function may refer to:

  • professional or official position: Official
  • Function (mathematics), an abstract entity that associates an input to a corresponding output according to some rule
  • Function (biology), explaining why a feature was created
  • Function (philosophy), in philosophy, a normative relation of objects or events to their use or consequences
  • Function object, or functor or functionoid, a concept of object-oriented programming
  • Functionalism (sociology), in sociology, a philosophy that originally attempted to explain social institutions
  • Functionalism (architecture), in architecture, the principle that a building should be designed based on its purpose
  • Functional programming, a programming paradigm that avoids local variables and keeping state
  • Grammatical function, in language studies, the purpose of a word or phrase in a sentence
  • Diatonic functionality, in music, the role (tonic, dominant, etc.) of a note in a chord
  • Subroutine, in computer science, a procedure that implements a function
  • Functional group, a substituent in chemistry that performs a function in a molecule

[edit] See also

  • Functionary, someone who carries out a particular role within an organisation; a close synonym for official