Definition of Function. Meaning of Function. Synonyms of Function

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Definition of Function

function
Fluent Flu"ent, n. 1. A current of water; a stream. [Obs.] 2. [Cf. F. fluente.] (Math.) A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; -- called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.

Meaning of Function from wikipedia

- Look up function or functionality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Function or functionality may refer to: Function key, a type of key on computer keyboards...
- mathematics, a function from a set X to a set Y ****igns to each element of X exactly one element of Y. The set X is called the domain of the function and the...
- In linear algebra, a sublinear function (or functional as is more often used in functional analysis), also called a quasi-seminorm or a Banach functional...
- A hash function is any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size to fixed-size values, though there are some hash functions that support...
- sigmoid function is any mathematical function whose graph has a characteristic S-shaped or sigmoid curve. A common example of a sigmoid function is the...
- A likelihood function (often simply called the likelihood) measures how well a statistical model explains observed data by calculating the probability...
- The gamma function then is defined in the complex plane as the analytic continuation of this integral function: it is a meromorphic function which is holomorphic...
- In mathematics, a monotonic function (or monotone function) is a function between ordered sets that preserves or reverses the given order. This concept...
- A logistic function or logistic curve is a common S-shaped curve (sigmoid curve) with the equation f ( x ) = L 1 + e − k ( x − x 0 ) {\displaystyle f(x)={\frac...
- Bessel functions, first defined by the mathematician Daniel Bernoulli and then generalized by Friedrich Bessel, are canonical solutions y(x) of Bessel's...