elementary function

noun

, Mathematics.

1. one of a class of functions that is generally taken to include power, exponential, and trigonometric functions, their inverses, and finite combinations of them.

Example Sentences

It’s okay to have a laugh about a console getting such an elementary function patched in so late into its lifespan.

From The Verge

The other way is to resolve the mental process into its components and to test every single elementary function in its isolated form.

From Project Gutenberg

The franchise is but an elementary function of the assimilation of physiological elements in the social organism, which in the animal organism is performed by the aggregate of living cells, and in society by the aggregate of individuals, not being idiots or criminals, who possess the minimum of social energy.

From Project Gutenberg

Far different is the administration of criminal justice, a technical and very noble function, which has nothing in common with the elementary function of the franchise.

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