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Function and Union

function

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. ()
  • What something is used for.
    • usage: "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it"
  • 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"
  • 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"
  • A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program.

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"
  • 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"
  • Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
    • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
union

noun

  • An organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer.
    • usage: "you have to join the union in order to get a job"
  • The United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War. )
    • usage: "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"
  • The act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes.
    • usage: "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"
  • The state of being joined or united or linked.
    • usage: "there is strength in union"
  • The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce. )
    • usage: "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"
  • Healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones.
  • A political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations.
    • usage: "the Soviet Union"
  • A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets.
    • usage: "let C be the union of the sets A and B"
  • The occurrence of a uniting of separate parts.
    • usage: "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"
  • A device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner. )
  • The act of making or becoming a single unit.
    • usage: "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

adjective

  • Being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War.
    • usage: "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
  • Of trade unions.
    • usage: "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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