Technology / Television (TV) / Function: In narrative study, a single action or character attribute. Based in Russian Formalism and the work of Vladimir Propp.
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Function Noun Synonyms: purpose, aim, role or r“le, raison d'ˆtre, responsibility, mission, charge, concern, business, province, duty, job, occupation, work, office, task, chore, assignment, commission, activity
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Science / Spiders / Cross-Correlation Function (CCF): a 2D or 3D function that is obtained by forming the scalar cross-product of two images or volumes(i.e., the sum of products of equivalent pixels) as a function of a 2D or 3D shift vector. The CCF is o MORE
Technology / Programming / Function Call: A function call is another way to refer to calling a method that has been declared and defined elsewhere. For instance: methodname():, MORE
Science / Spiders / Contrast Transfer Function (CTF): function that describes the transfer of information from the object (i.e., the object's projection) to the contrast observed in the image for bright field electron microscopy (the usual mode of imagin MORE
Business / Finance / Probability Density Function: The function that describes the change of certain realizations for a continuous random variable. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Functional Shift: The linguistic equivalent of poetic anthimeria, in which one part of grammatical speech becomes another. An especially common type of functional shift in everyday grammar is taking a noun and treating MORE
Science / Chemistry / Wavefunction: A mathematical function that gives the amplitude of a wave as a function of position (and sometimes, as a function of time and/or electron spin). Wavefunctions are used in chemistry to represent the b MORE