Dictionary definition(s) for: function

• n., All of the activities aimed to accomplish one purpose, considered abstractly.
  [ Archives - The InterPARES 1 Project Glossary , Page: 360 ]
  Duranti, Luciana, ed. The Long-term Preservation of Authentic Electronic Records: Findings of the InterPARES Project. San Miniato, Italy: Archilab, 2005. Also available online at http://interpares.org/book.
• n., [functions] Areas of responsibility in which activities are conducted in order to accomplish a purpose.
  [ Arts - Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ]
  J. Paul Getty Trust. Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT). Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2005. http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_reseach/vocabularies/aat/
• n., 1. The activities of an organization or individual performed to accomplish some mandate or mission. – 2. Computing • Software code that performs a specific task, usually accepting one or more data values as input and, based on a manipulation of the input values, returning a single output value.
  [ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
  Pearce-Moses, Richard. A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2005. http://www.archivists.org/glossary/index.asp
• n., All of the acts aimed to accomplish one purpose within a given jurisdiction or locale.
  [ Archives - Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records , Page: 116 ]
  Duranti, Luciana, Terry Eastwood, and Heather MacNeil. Preservation of the Integrity of Electronic Records. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
• n., Any operation or procedure that relates one variable to one or more other variables.
  [ Sciences - A Dictionary of Physics ]
  A Dictionary of Physics. Ed. John Daintith. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. University of British Columbia. 4 August 2006 http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t83.e1206
• n., The goal to which an institution addresses its activity and produces the relative records. The function is the scope of an activity; the jurisdiction indicates the territory and the sector of competence to pursue a function.
  [ Archives - Guide for Managing Electronic Records from an Archival Perspective ]
  ICA Committee on Electronic Records. Guide for Managing Electronic Records from an Archival Perspective. Paris, France: ICA, 1997. http://www.ica.org/biblio/cer/guide_eng.html.