phi-function

But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.

To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.

Little girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.

This is hardly a function—parties even in the big political country-houses are more or less informal.

No definite proof of this position has, however, as yet been adduced, and the function of the compound is entirely unknown.

After the formal proclamation was issued the function terminated with a banquet given to 200 insurgent notabilities.