different between function vs subadditive
function
English
Etymology
From Middle French function, from Old French fonction, from Latin functi? (“performance, execution”), from functus, perfect participle of fungor (“to perform, execute, discharge”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??(k)??n/, /?f??k?n?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?f??k??n/, [?f??k???n], [?f??k?n?]
- Hyphenation: func?tion
- Rhymes: -??k??n
Noun
function (plural functions)
- What something does or is used for.
- Synonyms: aim, intention, purpose, role, use
- A professional or official position.
- Synonyms: occupation, office, part, role
- An official or social occasion.
- Synonyms: affair, occasion, social occasion, social function
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- Synonyms: map, mapping, mathematical function, operator, transformation
- Hypernym: relation
- (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- Synonyms: procedure, routine, subprogram, subroutine, func, funct
- (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- (anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
Hyponyms
- subfunction
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
- function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
function (third-person singular simple present functions, present participle functioning, simple past and past participle functioned)
- (intransitive) To have a function.
- Synonyms: officiate, serve
- (intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.
- Synonyms: go, operate, run, work
- Antonym: malfunction
Related terms
- functional
- dysfunction, dysfunctional
Translations
Middle French
Noun
function f (plural functions)
- function (what something's intended use is)
Descendants
- ? English: function
- French: fonction
function From the web:
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subadditive
English
Etymology
sub- +? additive
Adjective
subadditive (not comparable)
- (of a function) Such that the image of a sum is at most the sum of the images of the summands.
- The square-root function is subadditive under addition because .
Antonyms
- superadditive
Related terms
- subadditivity
Further reading
- subadditive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
subadditive From the web:
- what does subadditive mean
- what does countably subadditive mean
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