plural of composite function

plural of bodily function

(physiology) A normal physical process that occurs in the body. / (euphemistic) An excretory function of an organism, usually the discharging of feces and urine.

plural of utility function

(biology) Any function of the body that is essential for maintaining life, especially breathing and circulation.

(mathematics) a type of function used in the analysis of inhomogeneous differential equations.

(mathematics, cryptography) A function that is easy to compute in one direction but difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without special information.

plural of trapdoor function

(mathematics, statistics) A sigmoid function giving the probability that a measurement, under the influence of normally distributed errors with standard deviation, is within a certain distance from the mean value.

(computer science) A mathematical function that can be computed using an abstract computation machine such as Turing machine.