strictly decreasing function

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noun Mathematics.

a function having the property that for any two points in the domain such that one is larger than the other, the image of the larger point is less than the image of the smaller point.

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Traditionally, the community has eschewed visitors and strangers to their towns, and strictly forbade outside marriage.
The Himalayas’ Hidden Aryans|Nina Strochlic|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But the copper performs another important function: working as a catalyst in the distillation process.
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The dinner is strictly private, and just 30 senior financiers have been invited.
Prince William, Kate Middleton, and Bump Touch Down in New York City|Tom Sykes|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Read too strictly, this would exclude highly inventive works of science fiction and fantasy because they lack realism.
The Birth of the Novel|Nick Romeo|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The iPad was an even bigger hit, especially as it had a new function that allowed him to play the drawing back.
The Many Lives of Artist David Hockney|William O’Connor|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To give him a party name, he became an anti-clerical, strictly in a political and lawful sense.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Monotheism is strictly inconsistent with the supremacy of “merits” which is the very soul of Oriental religion.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
To prevent intruders or extruders from withdrawing his mind from the text, he exercises the Inhibitory function of the Attention.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Little girls perhaps represent the attractive function of adornment: they like to be thought pretty.
Children's Ways|James Sully
The relief that I find is for your Majesty to be pleased to order strictly that the regulations made in regard to it be obeyed.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various

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