entire function
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Remember that the nervous system’s entire function is to warn us of danger.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2024
That amount can not only harm plants, but it can also upend “the entire function of the ecosystem,” says study author Pieter De Frenne, an ecologist at Ghent University in Belgium.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2023
When someone’s entire function is ceremonial, it can take on big significance if they change up even a small part of that ceremony.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2019
Each foreman can have a task assigned him which is so accurately measured that he will be kept fully occupied and still will daily be able to perform his entire function.
From Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
As before said, the entire function of this most effective machine tool is self-acting.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
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