Function and Contact

function

Mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function. ()
- synonyms: mathematical function, single-valued function, map, mapping
What something is used for.
- usage: "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it"
- synonyms: purpose, role, use
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
- usage: "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
- synonyms: office, part, role
A relation such that one thing is dependent on another.
- usage: "height is a function of age"; "price is a function of supply and demand"
A formal or official social gathering or ceremony.
- usage: "it was a black-tie function"
A vaguely specified social event.
- usage: "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"
- synonyms: affair, occasion, social occasion, social function
A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program.
- synonyms: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure

Perform as expected when applied.
- usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
- synonyms: work, operate, go, run
Serve a purpose, role, or function.
- usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
- synonyms: serve
Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
- usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
- synonyms: officiate

(v.i.) Alternative of Functionate.
(n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
(n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
(n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office or calling; per formance.
(n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
(n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
(n.) A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, especially one somewhat formal.
(n.) A religious ceremony, especially one particularly impressive and elaborate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

contact

Close interaction.
- usage: "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
The act of touching physically.
- usage: "her fingers came in contact with the light switch"
- synonyms: physical contact
The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity.
- usage: "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"
The physical coming together of two or more things.
- usage: "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"
- synonyms: impinging, striking
A person who is in a position to give you special assistance.
- usage: "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"
- synonyms: middleman
A channel for communication between groups.
- usage: "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
- synonyms: liaison, link, inter-group communication
Electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact. (
- usage: "they forget to solder the contacts"
- synonyms: tangency
A communicative interaction.
- usage: "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
- synonyms: touch
A thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication.
- synonyms: contact lens

Be in or establish communication with.
- usage: "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
- synonyms: reach, get through, get hold of
Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.
- usage: "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- synonyms: touch, adjoin, meet

(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
(n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
(n.) The property of two curves or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary