Function vs. Category — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Function and Category
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Function
An activity that is natural to or the purpose of a person or thing
Bridges perform the function of providing access across water
Bodily functions
Category
A class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared characteristics
The various categories of research
Function
A relation or expression involving one or more variables
The function (bx + c)
Category
Each of a possibly exhaustive set of classes among which all things might be distributed.
Function
A thing dependent on another factor or factors
Class shame is a function of social power
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Category
A specifically defined division in a system of classification; a class.
Function
A large or formal social event or ceremony
He was obliged to attend party functions
Category
Aristotle's modes of objective being, such as quality, quantity, or relation, that are inherent in all things.
Function
Work or operate in a proper or particular way
Her liver is functioning normally
Category
Kant's modes of subjective understanding, such as singularity, universality, or particularity, that organize perceptions into knowledge.
Function
A person's role or occupation
In my function as chief editor.
Category
A basic logical type of philosophical conception in post-Kantian philosophy.
Function
(Biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part
The heart's function is to pump blood.
Category
A property or structural unit of a language, such as a part of speech or a type of phrase.
Function
(Computers) A procedure within an application.
Category
A specific grammatical defining property of a linguistic unit or class, such as number or gender in the noun and tense or voice in the verb.
Function
An official ceremony or a formal social occasion
Disliked attending receptions and other company functions.
Category
(Mathematics) A class of objects, together with a class of morphisms between those objects, and an associative composition rule for those morphisms. Categories are used to study a wide variety of mathematical constructions in a similar way.
Function
Something closely related to another thing and dependent on it for its existence, value, or significance
Growth is a function of nutrition.
Category
A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.
This steep and dangerous climb belongs to the most difficult category.
I wouldn't put this book in the same category as the author's first novel.
Function
A variable so related to another that for each value assumed by one there is a value determined for the other.
Category
(mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.
One well-known category has sets as objects and functions as arrows.
Just as a monoid consists of an underlying set with a binary operation "on top of it" which is closed, associative and with an identity, a category consists of an underlying digraph with an arrow composition operation "on top of it" which is transitively closed, associative, and with an identity at each object. In fact, a category's composition operation, when restricted to a single one of its objects, turns that object's set of arrows (which would all be loops) into a monoid.
Function
A rule of correspondence between two sets such that there is exactly one element in the second set assigned to each element in the first set. Also called mapping.
Category
One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.
The categories or predicaments - the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language - were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed.
Function
To have or perform a function; serve
Functioned as ambassador.
Category
Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category.
Function
To deal with or overcome the challenges of everyday life
For weeks after his friend's funeral he simply could not function.
Category
A collection of things sharing a common attribute;
There are two classes of detergents
Function
What something does or is used for.
Category
A general concept that marks divisions or coordinations in a conceptual scheme
Function
A professional or official position.
Function
An official or social occasion.
Function
Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
Function
A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
Function
(mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain. Category:en:Functions
Function
(computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
Function
(biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
Function
(chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
Function
(anthropology) The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
Function
(intransitive) To have a function.
Function
(intransitive) To carry out a function; to be in action.
Function
The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; performance.
Function
The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
Function
The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
As the mind opens, and its functions spread.
Function
The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
Tradesmen . . . going about their functions.
The malady which made him incapable of performing hisregal functions.
Function
A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
Function
A religious ceremony, esp. one particularly impressive and elaborate.
Every solemn function' performed with the requirements of the liturgy.
Function
A public or social ceremony or gathering; a festivity or entertainment, esp. one somewhat formal.
This function, which is our chief social event.
Function
To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.
Function
A mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set
Function
What something is used for;
The function of an auger is to bore holes
Ballet is beautiful but what use is it?
Function
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;
The function of a teacher
The government must do its part
Play its role
Function
A relation such that one thing is dependent on another;
Height is a function of age
Price is a function of supply and demand
Function
A formal or official social gathering or ceremony;
It was a black-tie function
Function
A vaguely specified social event;
The party was quite an affair
An occasion arranged to honor the president
A seemingly endless round of social functions
Function
A set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
Function
Perform as expected when applied;
The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in
Does this old car still run well?
This old radio doesn't work anymore
Function
Serve a purpose, role, or function;
The tree stump serves as a table
The female students served as a control group
This table would serve very well
His freedom served him well
The table functions as a desk
Function
Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function;
His wife officiated as his private secretary
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