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state function

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noun

physics a thermodynamic quantity that has definite values for given states of a system, such as entropy, enthalpy, free energy, etc

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After his Oireachtas address, President Biden will be the evening guest of honour at a state function in Dublin Castle, the former seat of British power in Ireland.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023

In this view, public health and safety is solely a state function.

From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2022

Hess’s law is valid because enthalpy is a state function: Enthalpy changes depend only on where a chemical process starts and ends, but not on the path it takes from start to finish.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

It was just a complete disintegration of state function.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2015

Church-going was another of the customs of men and women which Society had taken up, like the Opera, and made into a state function.

From The Metropolis by Sinclair, Upton

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