proper function

noun

, Mathematics.

First recorded in 1930–35

Her proper function, like Mary Magdalene's sister, Martha, is to wash feet.

In other words, what is the proper function of play, with respect not to youth merely, but to all mankind?

The proper function of the teacher is to guide the student in developing along the two lines.

This natural gift must be developed by exercise in the ear's proper function,—listening to sounds.

As soon as food enters the stomach, its nerves are excited to perform their proper function of stimulating the muscles.

Each god exercised his own proper function in that tomb which was a reproduction in small of the regions of the other world.

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