function
Definition 1
General: Type of action performed by a device, department, or person. Function remains more or less fixed whereas the 'purpose' (which indicates intention or objective) generally changes. For example, the function of a hammer is to strike something nearby whereas its purpose (what to strike and why) could be anything the hammer-wielder has in mind.
Definition 2
Management: Task oriented block of related efforts (accounting, marketing, manufacturing, etc.) organized to produce intended outputs (financial reports, sales, products, etc.).
Definition 3
Statistics: Mathematical relationship in which a quantity (dependent variable) depends on or is determined by another quantity (independent variable) or quantities. The dependent variable is said to be a function of the independent variable(s). If something is done, or something happens, to the independent variable(s), it is reflected in the dependent variable. For example, expenditure is a function of income and, for a wage earner, income is a function of two variables-per hour wage rate and number of hours worked.
function is in the HR, Teams, & Training and Statistics, Mathematics, & Analysis subjects.
function appears in the definitions of the following terms:
materials management,
design life,
chipset,
board committee,
depressant,
tolerance threshold,
valued environmental attribute,
ecological sustainability,
anaerobic,
record
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