main function

collocation in English

meanings of mainand function

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main
adjective[before noun]
uk /meɪn/ us /meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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function
noun
uk /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/ us /ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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Examples of main function

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The wrapped mainfunction performs some initialization, calls the old mainfunction, and then tidies up the results.
Competition among asset managers is discouraged if their mainfunction is to meet quantitative asset restrictions.
The mainfunction of the gripper is to provide friction for robot locomotion.
Religious ceremonials of some kind must be inferred as their mainfunction.
Starting from the mainfunction, shape information is propagated from outermost to innermost.
The mainfunction of the latter is dialogue control in terms of updating information states.
The mainfunction of theory for practitioners is in explaining clinical phenomena.
In these cases, the mainfunction of well is interpersonal rather than textual.
The practical-difference thesis is related to the mainfunction of rules in practical deliberation.
The mainfunction of only here is apparently to emphasize this reading.
These examples constitute a new structural type, but their mainfunction is still on the textual level.
To suggest that that was his mainfunction would clearly do less than justice to the importance of his work.
The mainfunction flat is recursive, taking a list of lists and returning a list of natural numbers.
The statistical tests presented here have the mainfunction of identifying potentially interesting factor crossproducts for more detailed investigation.
Based on the requirements, the functional structure, solution concepts, and preliminary layouts of mainfunction carriers are developed iteratively.
The mainfunction of the instructing and teaching module is off-line path planning, teaching and instructing.
The mainfunction of this lexicon, however, is to serve as a basis for the semantic query expansion.
The mainfunction is decomposed into various subfunctions depending upon, its complexity, and then transformed to design objects.
The cobot's mainfunction is to realize a "virtual guiding surface" along which the part can be manoeuvred and positioned.
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