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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • comptheory Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
  • In good working order.
  • medicine 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.
  • Only for fuctional purposes, notably in architecture
  • Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function

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Noun:

  • mathematics A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function ''y''=''f''(''x'') whose argument ''x'' varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.

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