Usually means: Relationship mapping inputs to outputs.
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We found 61 dictionaries that define the word function:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. function: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. function: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. function: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. function: Collins English Dictionary
  5. function: Vocabulary.com
  6. Function, function: Wordnik
  7. function: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. function: Wiktionary
  9. function: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. function: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. function: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. function: Dictionary.com
  13. function (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. function: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Function(mathematics), Function (Mathematics), Function (biology), Function (computer science), Function (computing), Function (engineering), Function (mathematics), Function (music), Function (musician), Function (programming), Function (sociology), Function (song), Function: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Function: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. function: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. function: Rhymezone
  19. function: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. function: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. function: Free Dictionary
  22. function: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. function: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. function: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. function: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. function: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. function: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Function (disambiguation), function: Legal dictionary
  4. function, function, function: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. function: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Function: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Function: Game Dictionary
  4. function: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. Function (computer science), Function (computing), Function (disambiguation), Function (mathematics), Function (programming), function: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Function (computer science), Function (computing), Function (disambiguation), Function (programming), function: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. function: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. function: Idioms

Science (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Misunderstood Physics Terms (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  4. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Function: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  6. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  7. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  8. -function, -function, -function, function, function, function, function, function, function, function: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  10. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. function: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. function: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  What something does or is used for.
noun:  A professional or official position.
noun:  An official or social occasion.
noun:  (slang) A party.
noun:  Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
noun:  A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
noun:  (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
noun:  (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
noun:  (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
noun:  (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
noun:  (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a function.
verb:  (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.

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