Function : nf (word from latin function “accomplishment” and “office”, family of fungous “to discharge, to accomplish”: fungible).
The word “function” has many meanings:
I ) Action, characteristic role (of an element, of an organ) in a whole:
HAS . People :
1. Exercise of a job, of an office.
By extension: What a person must accomplish to play their role in society, in a social group (activity, duty, ministry, mission, occupation, office, role, service, task, work).
Fulfill his duties.
Constitutional law: State activity in a specific area. Legislative, executive or administrative function; judicial function.
2 . Profession considered as contributing to the life of society (charge, job, profession, place, position, profession, situation).
Attributes, insignia of a function; rank, honors attached to a function (dignity, title).
Fulfill a function as title (holder), replacement (alternate), interim.
Accumulation of functions. Function of director, magistrate.
The functions of sb, all the obligations of his profession.
In the performance of his duties.
To resign from office (resignation).
To relieve someone of their duties.
Active. To be, to remain in function.
Function. Accommodation, company vehicle, made available to a person in the context of their employment.
To act as: to play the role of. He acts as director.
Especially: Civil service, administrative, position involving the management of public affairs; all of these positions; legal status of a public service agent.
Be in the civil service (civil servant).
B. Things:
1. Characteristic role played by a thing in the whole of which it is a part (often opposed to structure) (action, role; utility).
To fulfill a function: to act, to function (functional).
The different functions of a device (multifunction, multifunctional).
To act as: to take the place of, to serve.
This sofa acts as a bed (office).
2. Set of structural properties, making an activity possible, in living beings.
Biological functions.
Functions of nutrition, relationship, reproduction.
Functions of the liver, heart.
Loc. province The function creates the organ: any function that a living being must accomplish in order to subsist determines the appearance in this being of the means to accomplish it (Lamarck's transformism).
3. Linguistics: Set of properties of a unit in relation to others in a statement.
Nature and function.
Function, category and meaning of a lexical unit.
Adjective functions (epithet, attribute).
Subject function (of noun, pronoun).
Semiology: Functions of language.
Symbol, signal function; of expression, of communication.
4. Chemistry: Determined set of atoms giving a molecule characteristic properties (followed by a name in apposition).
Function acid, alcohol…
5. Proper action (of an organ, an instrument, a machine).
The function of the buttress.
The functions of software (functionality; multifunctional).
II) Dependency relationship
1. Mathematics: A relation that exists between two quantities, such that any change in the first results in a corresponding change in the second (or in terms of sets, given two sets X and Y,
In the expression y = f(x), y equals f of x, f is the function, x is the variable (or independent variable) and y is the image of x (or dependent variable).
Trigonometric function, exponential.
Continuous, differentiable, integrable function.
Bounded, monotonous function.
2. Physics: Relationship between several interdependent quantities.
The mass of a relativistic object is a function of its speed.
State function: thermodynamic function of the macroscopic variables characterizing the state of equilibrium of a system. ➙ enthalpy, entropy.
Wave function of a quanton, amplitude of its spatial location.
3. Common meaning (in expressions):
What depends on something (consequence, effect).
To be a function of: to depend on.
The price is based on demand.
To consider something: depending on. (in relation to), relatively (to); region. depending (on).
Act according to one's interests (according to, following).