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entire function

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a function of a complex variable that has a derivative for all finite values of the variable.


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Remember that the nervous system’s entire function is to warn us of danger.

From Seattle Times • May 28, 2024

That amount can not only harm plants, but it can also upend “the entire function of the ecosystem,” says study author Pieter De Frenne, an ecologist at Ghent University in Belgium.

From Slate • Oct. 7, 2023

When someone’s entire function is ceremonial, it can take on big significance if they change up even a small part of that ceremony.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2019

As before said, the entire function of this most effective machine tool is self-acting.

From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Smiles, Samuel

Three-quarters at least of the entire function will be occupied by that.

From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh