(biology) A reproductive strategy in some amphibians wherein the male will inseminate a fresh newly-dead female corpse, fertilizing the still viable eggs, and then squeezing the corpse to eject the newly fertilized eggs into the water.

plural of special function

Any of various specific mathematical functions that have more or less established names and notations due to their importance.

(signal processing) A discrete window function, w(n)=1/2;(1- cos ((2𝜋n)/(N-1))), typically used to select a subset of a series of samples in order to perform a Fourier transform or other calculation.

plural of Bloch function

(mathematics) Any of the elements of the Bloch space.

(mathematics) A function whose domain is a subset of its codomain, and for which all of the elements in its domain are fixed points.

(philosophy) A form of functionalism (philosophical paradigm of mind) based on the rejection of behaviorist theories in psychology and their replacement with empirical cognitive models of the mind.

plural of sigmoid function

(mathematical analysis, statistics) Any of various real functions whose graph resembles an elongated letter "S"; specifically, the logistic function y=(eˣ)/(eˣ+1)=1/(1+e⁻ˣ).