(mathematics) A function to be maximized or minimized in optimization theory.

(biochemistry, genetics) A genomics branch that measures expression levels of RNAs and proteins to understand biological functions of a set of genes in cells.

(mathematics) A function from the real line to a finite subset of the real line.

(game theory) A mathematical function describing the award given to a single player at the outcome of a game.

plural of functional group

(mathematics) A function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

(game theory) A mathematical function that assigns a real number to every element of the outcome space in a way that captures the agent's preferences over both simple and compound lotteries.

(computing theory) Capable of computing any recursive function.

(mathematical analysis) Any function that is algebraically independent of its variable(s); a function which does not satisfy a polynomial equation whose coefficients are themselves polynomials.

(trigonometry) Any function of an angle expressible as the ratio of two of the sides of a right triangle that has that angle (e.g., sine), or that subtracts 1 from such a ratio or subtracts such a ratio from 1 (e.g., coversed sine).