Function and Weight

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

weight

The vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity.
Sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms.
- synonyms: free weight, exercising weight
The relative importance granted to something.
- usage: "his opinion carries great weight"; "the progression implied an increasing weightiness of the items listed"
- synonyms: weightiness
An artifact that is heavy.
An oppressive feeling of heavy force.
- usage: "bowed down by the weight of responsibility"
A system of units used to express the weight of something.
- synonyms: system of weights
A unit used to measure weight.
- usage: "he placed two weights in the scale pan"
- synonyms: weight unit
Statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance.
- synonyms: weighting

Weight down with a load.
- synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down
Present with a bias.
- usage: "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
- synonyms: slant, angle

(v.t.) To load (fabrics) as with barite, to increase the weight, etc.
(v.t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v.t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
(v.t.) A scale or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v.t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v.t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v.t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v.t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v.t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v.t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v.t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Either Gross' Weight', Net Weight, or Tare Weight.