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41Function (biology) — A function is part of an answer to a question about why some object or process occurred in a system that evolved through a process of selection. Thus, function refers forward from the object or process, along some chain of causation to the goal… …
42function — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. faculty, office, duty, role, province; observance. See agency, business, rite. v. i. operate, serve. See action, use. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Use] Syn. employment, capacity, office, duty, faculty, role …
43One sex two sex theory — The one sex and two sex theory are two models of human anatomy or fetal development discussed in Thomas Laqueur s book Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. He theorizes that a fundamental change in attitudes toward human sexual… …
44One-piece swimsuit — Woman s one piece bathing suit, c.1920 One piece swimsuit …
45Dirac delta function — Schematic representation of the Dirac delta function by a line surmounted by an arrow. The height of the arrow is usually used to specify the value of any multiplicative constant, which will give the area under the function. The other convention… …
46Wave function — Not to be confused with the related concept of the Wave equation Some trajectories of a harmonic oscillator (a ball attached to a spring) in classical mechanics (A B) and quantum mechanics (C H). In quantum mechanics (C H), the ball has a wave… …
47Μ-recursive function — In mathematical logic and computer science, the μ recursive functions are a class of partial functions from natural numbers to natural numbers which are computable in an intuitive sense. In fact, in computability theory it is shown that the μ… …
48Implicit function — In mathematics, an implicit function is a generalization for the concept of a function in which the dependent variable has not been given explicitly in terms of the independent variable. To give a function f explicitly is to provide a… …
49Gamma function — For the gamma function of ordinals, see Veblen function. The gamma function along part of the real axis In mathematics, the gamma function (represented by the capital Greek letter Γ) is an extension of the factorial function, with its… …
50Exponential function — The natural exponential function y = ex In mathematics, the exponential function is the function ex, where e is the number (approximately 2.718281828) such that the function ex is its own derivative …
