n. Fulfilment or discharge of a set duty or requirement; exercise of a faculty or office.n. Activity in general; action of any kind; behavior.n. Power of acting; faculty; that power of acting in a specific way which appertains to a thing by virtue of its special constitution; that mode of action or operation which is proper to any organ, faculty, office, structure, etc.n. That which one is bound or which is one's business to do; business; office; duty; employment.n. An official ceremony.n. Any important occasion marked by elaborate ceremonial: extended in recent use to cover social entertainments, as operas, balls, and receptions.n. In mathematics, a mathematical quantity whose value depends upon the values of other quantities, called the arguments or independent variables of the function; a mathematical quantity whose changes of value depend on those of other quantities called its variables.n. Hence, anything which is dependent for its value, significance, etc., upon something else.n. See the adjectives.n. see the adjectives.n. See the adjectives.n. One of several functions related to in the same manner in which ordinary elliptic functions are related to , being merely transformed elliptic functions.n. See the adjectives.n. a function such that the interval of the variable considered may be so divided into parts that the function is continuous, differentiable, etc., in each part.n. In a generalized sense, a function which has its value unchanged by the substitution for its variable of a certain algebraic function thereof. A periodic function of the second kind is one for which this function is linear.n. Two physical quantities whose several mathematical relations to two other physical quantities are the same.n. which may, for instance, be either limited or unlimited.To perform a function; work; act; functionate; especially, in physiology, to have a function; do or be something physiologically.n. See graph.n. A function differing from that just defined by log/r.
