Function and Section

noun

• 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

verb

• 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.

noun

• A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical. )
  • usage: "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section"
  • synonyms: subdivision
• A very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope.
  • usage: "sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue"
• A distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people.
  • usage: "no section of the nation is more ardent than the South"; "there are three synagogues in the Jewish section"
• One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
  • usage: "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
  • synonyms: segment
• A small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon.
• One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.
  • usage: "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
  • synonyms: part, division
• A land unit equal to 1 square mile.
• Geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid.
  • synonyms: plane section
• A small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately.
  • usage: "a graduate student taught sections for the professor's lecture course"
  • synonyms: discussion section
• A division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class.
• A small army unit usually having a special function.
• A specialized division of a large organization.
  • usage: "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
  • synonyms: department
• A segment of a citrus fruit.
  • usage: "he ate a section of the orange"
• The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation.
  • synonyms: incision, surgical incision

verb

• Divide into segments.
  • usage: "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
  • synonyms: segment

• (n.) A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character /, often used to denote such a division.
• (n.) A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; -- often indicated by the sign /.
• (n.) A distinct part of a country or people, community, class or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines or of a people considered as distinct.
• (n.) The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet or to two superficies which meet or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.
• (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.
• (n.) The act of cutting or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
• (n.) One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preemption laws.
• (n.) A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.
• (n.) The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

Identifies the third highest level in the formal City organization in which a specific activity is carried out; a division may consist of several' Section's.

(DoD) An area in a warehouse extending from one wall to the next; usually the largest subdivision of one floor.
(DoD) A tactical unit of the Army and Marine Corps. A section is smaller than a platoon and larger than a squad. In some organizations the section, rather than the squad, is the basic tactical unit.
(DoD) A subdivision of an office, installation, territory, works, or organization; especially a major subdivision of a staff.
(DoD) As applied to ships or naval aircraft, a tactical subdivision of a division. It is normally one-half of a division in the case of ships, and two aircraft in the case of aircraft.