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unbox
invariance
promise
reward
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sink function
search
global minimum
autological
invocation
semi-elasticity
linear function
lookup
suspension
callee
cofunction
function pointer
two-sided
invariant
demur
member function
except
composite
thenable
make
evaluative
bless
get
deodand
extrinsic value
map
Schwarzian derivative
expando
finalizer
composition
functional
liquidity
bitflip
Schwarzian
livery
valuable
association
scalar field
transformational rule
assetization
numismatic value
homogeneous function
distance
alterable
declarer
early return
mod
betterment
actual parameter
Lipschitz condition
mess of pottage
polymorphism
big O notation
historical cost
box
subfunctional
higher-order function
eigensheaf
div
assignment
monotone function
profit taking
productization
functionally
commodity money
derivation
chemical property
convert
odd function
equity
global maximum
occasion
decern
stack trace
decay
quotiety
monovariant
cardinal variable
computer code
opaque
function
delegate
distributive
autological
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opaque
functionally
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promise
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search
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lookup
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function
noun
- A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- One who sets something, such as a challenge or an examination.
- The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- A long-haired breed of gundog.
- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- A typesetter.
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.
verb
noun
- A function used to retrieve the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the setter.
- A material which is included in a vacuum system or device for removing gas by sorption.
- One who, or that which, gets.
- A miner who dug coal, contrasted with the putter, who took it to the surface.
verb
noun
- A function object.
- A function word.
- A structure allowing a function to apply within a generic type, in a way that is conceptually similar to a functor in category theory.
- A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows, in such a way as to preserve domains and codomains (of the arrows) as well as composition and identities.
noun
- The value of such a derived function for a given value of its independent variable: the rate of change of a function at a point in its domain.
- A financial instrument whose value depends on the valuation of an underlying asset; such as a warrant, an option etc.
- A word that derives from another one.
- The linear operator that maps functions to their derived functions, usually written D; the simplest differential operator.
- Something derived.
- Any of several related generalizations of the derivative: the directional derivative, partial derivative, Fréchet derivative, functional derivative, etc.
- A chemical derived from another.
- The derived function of f(x): the function giving the instantaneous rate of change of f; equivalently, the function giving the slope of the line tangent to the graph of f. Written f'(x) or (df)/(dx) in Leibniz's notation, ̇f(x) in Newton's notation (the latter used particularly when the independent variable is time).
adj
- Having a value that depends on an underlying asset of variable value.
- Lacking originality.
- Imitative of the work of someone else.
- Obtained by derivation; not radical, original, or fundamental.
- Referring to a work, such as a translation or adaptation, based on another work that may be subject to copyright restrictions.
noun
- A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- Synonym of rute.
- A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- A change or exchange.
- One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- A slender woody plant stem used as a whip; a thin, flexible rod, associated with corporal punishment in the United States.
verb
- To trim.
- To change places, tasks, etc.
- To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- To exchange.
- To swing or whisk.
- To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- To be swung or whisked.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To whip or hit with a switch.
- To shift to another circuit.
adj
noun
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- The independent variable of a function.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- Any of the phrases that bears a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
- A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- The phase of a complex number.
- A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
adj
- A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
- Relating to distribution.
- Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
- Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
- Assigning the species of a general term.
noun
noun
- A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
- A transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to his use.
- Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.
- an oath or affirmation; a vow
verb
noun
- Any function whose value on the sum of two elements is the sum of the values of the function on the two elements and whose value on the product of a scalar times an element is the scalar times the value of the function on the element: f(ax+by)=af(x)+bf(y)
- Any function whose graph is a straight line: f(x)=ax+b
noun
- A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
adj
- Whose salient properties apply when (the specified object) appears on either side of a given binary operator.
- Having two aspects or viewpoints
- Having two sides, bilateral.
- Reversible.
- That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality as well as its opposite.
noun
- A function of a function.
- A mixture of different components.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
- A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
verb
adj
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
verb
- give certain properties to something
- engage in
- make or cause to be or to become
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- create or manufacture a man-made product
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way
- create by artistic means
- earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- create or design, often in a certain way
- to compose or represent
- reach a goal
- be or be capable of being changed or made into
- make by shaping or bringing together constituents
- perform, produce, or carry out
- make by combining materials and parts
- change from one form into another
- act in a certain way so as to acquire
- charge with a function; charge to be
- achieve a point or goal
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- institute, enact, or establish
- carry out or commit
- form by assembling individuals or constituents
- organize or be responsible for
- put in order or neaten
- head into a specified direction
- have a bowel movement
- undergo fabrication or creation
- be suitable for
- add up to
- amount to
- constitute the essence of
- appear to begin an activity
- proceed along a path
- reach in time
- gather and light the materials for
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- induce to have sex
- assure the success of
- represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like
- consider as being
- calculate as being
- cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- favor the development of
- develop into
- behave in a certain manner
- eliminate urine
noun
verb
- give certain properties to something
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- go or come after and bring or take back
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- take vengeance on or get even
- achieve a point or goal
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- attract and fix
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- reach by calculation
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- purchase
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- reach and board
- irritate
- evoke an emotional response
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- overcome or destroy
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- make (offspring) by reproduction
noun
verb
- To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.
- To assign a drive letter to a shared folder.
- To have a direct relationship; to correspond.
- To represent by means of a map.
- To create a map of; to examine or survey in order to gather information for a map.
- To create a direct relationship to; to create a correspondence with.
noun
- An imaginary or fictional area, often predefined and confined, where a game or a session thereof takes place.
- A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.
- Synonym of associative array.
- A function.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genera Araschnia (especially, Araschnia levana) and Cyrestis, having map-like markings on the wings.
- A graphical or logical representation of any structure or system, showing the positions of or relationships between its components.
noun
- Applying a function to the result of another.
- A work of music, literature or art.
- The arrangement and flow of elements in a picture.
- The compounding of two velocities or forces into a single equivalent velocity or force.
- The general makeup of a thing or person.
- The proportion of different parts to make a whole.
- An essay.
- A mixture or compound; the result of composing.
- an agreement or compromise by which a creditor or group of creditors accepts partial payment from a debtor.
- The formation of compound words from separate words.
- Typesetting.
- Synthesis as opposed to analysis.
- Way to combine simple objects or data types into more complex ones.
- The act of putting together; assembly.
noun
- An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
- A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
adj
- Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
- Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
- Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
- In good working order.
noun
- An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
- The state or property of being liquid.
- Availability of cash over short term: ability to service short-term debt.
- The degree of which something is in high supply and demand, making it easily convertible to cash
noun
- The writ by which property is obtained.
- The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
- The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
- Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
- Release from wardship; deliverance.
- The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
- The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
- An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
- Outward markings, fittings or appearance
- A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
- A low grade of wool.
- A taxicab or limousine.
adj
noun
- Relationship between classes of objects that allows one object instance to cause another to perform an action on its behalf.
- The state of being associated; a connection to or an affiliation with something.
- A benevolent overseas Chinese organization of popular origin for overseas Chinese individuals with the same surname or trade or business.
- A group of persons associated for a common purpose; an organization; society.
- The act of associating.
- Any relationship between two measured quantities that renders them statistically dependent (but not necessarily causal or a correlation).
verb
- To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically for the purposes of individualizing and/or enhancing the performance of the object.
- To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
- To install or create a mod.
noun
- A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.
- A 1960s British person who dressed in such a style and was interested in modernism and the modern music of the time; the opposite of a rocker.
- An unconventionally modern style of fashionable dress originating in England in the 1960s, characterized by ankle-length black trenchcoats and sunglasses.
- An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.
- A moderately difficult route.
- Moderations: university examinations generally taken in the first year.
- A festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture, akin to the Welsh eisteddfod.
noun
- The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable.
- The feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for an instance of a method to have several definitions.
- The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
- The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.
- The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
- The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
verb
- To place a value of a primitive type into a corresponding object.
- To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- To strike with the fists; to punch.
- To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
noun
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- A coffin.
- The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- The vagina.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especiallycommon box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- The driver's seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- A predicament or trap.
- A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, the drooping (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black, or ironbark box trees.
- A prison cell.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- Preceded by the: television.
- A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- The penalty area.
- Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”)
noun
- A function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the result of a division of two integers.
- A division; a lesson.
- Divinity, as a school subject.
- A section of a web page, or the div element that represents it in HTML code.
- A foolish person; an idiot.
- division; a subject with multidisciplinary scope.
- A division.
- Divergence; a kind of differential operator.
noun
- An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- A document that effects this transfer.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- An assigned task.
- The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
noun
- A function f : X→Y (where X and Y are posets with partial order "≤") with either: (1) the property that x ≤ y implies f(x) ≤ f(y), or (2) the property that x ≤ y implies f(y) ≤ f(x).
- A Boolean function with the property that switching any one input variable from 0 to 1 results either in no change in output or a change from 0 to 1.
- A function f : X→R (where X is a subset of R, possibly a discrete set) that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases; that is, either x ≤ y implies f(x) ≤ f(y) or x ≤ y implies f(y) ≤ f(x).
noun
- The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
- The act of tracing origin or descent.
- A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
- That from which a thing is derived.
- That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
- The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
- Forming a new word by changing the base of another word or by adding affixes to it.
- The operation of deducing one function from another according to a fixed definition, referred to as derivation or differentiation; this is the inverse operation to integration.
- A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
verb
- To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- To score a spare.
- To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- To become converted.
- To score (especially a penalty kick).
- To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- To exchange for something of equal value.
noun
noun
- A special event or function.
- Need; requirement, necessity.
- The time when something happens.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
verb
verb
- with simple object
- transferred sense
- Decree a person etc. to be or to do something by judicial sentence. (in the phrase “to decern in”, obsolete) To mulct in by decree of court.
- Decree by judicial sentence that something be done.
- intransitive
- See distinctly (with the eyes or the mind); distinguish (an object or fact); discern.
verb
- Of an array: to lose its type and dimensions and be reduced to a pointer, for example when passed to a function.
- To undergo bit rot, that is, gradual degradation.
- To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.
- To undergo optical decay, that is, to relax to a less excited state, usually by emitting a photon or phonon.
- Loss of airspeed due to drag.
- To undergo software rot, that is, to fail to be updated in a changing environment, so as to eventually become legacy or obsolete.
- To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons; to undergo radioactive decay.
- To cause to rot or deteriorate.
- To rot, to go bad.
- To undergo prolonged reduction in altitude (above the orbited body).
noun
noun
adj
- Describes a type for which higher-level callers have no knowledge of data values or their representations; all operations are carried out by the type's defined abstract operators.
- Neither reflecting nor emitting light.
- Allowing little light to pass through, not translucent or transparent.
- Obtuse, stupid.
- Unclear, unintelligible, hard to get or explain the meaning of.
noun
verb
verb
noun
- What something does or is used for.
- The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
- An official or social occasion.
- A party.
- The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- A professional or official position.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
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