functionhood

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English

Etymology

From function +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

Noun

functionhood (uncountable)

  1. (mathematics, logic, grammar) The state or quality of being a function.
    • 1999, William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All, The Mathematical Association of America, published 1999, page 17:
      He did not distill the essential idea of functionhood: that to each x in the domain there corresponds a unique y in the range.