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# Function

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English Wiktionary has a dictionary definition (word meaning) for:
function

Function may refer to:

- professional or official position: Official
- Function (mathematics), an abstract entity that associates an input to a corresponding output according to some rule
- Function (biology), explaining why a feature was created
- Function (philosophy), in philosophy, a normative relation of objects or events to their use or consequences
- Function object, or functor or functionoid, a concept of object-oriented programming
- Functionalism (sociology), in sociology, a philosophy that originally attempted to explain social institutions
- Functionalism (architecture), in architecture, the principle that a building should be designed based on its purpose
- Functional programming, a programming paradigm that avoids local variables and keeping state
- Grammatical function, in language studies, the purpose of a word or phrase in a sentence
- Diatonic functionality, in music, the role (tonic, dominant, etc.) of a note in a chord
- Subroutine, in computer science, a procedure that implements a function
- Functional group, a substituent in chemistry that performs a function in a molecule

## [edit] See also

- Functionary, someone who carries out a particular role within an organisation; a close synonym for official

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