functional relation

collocation in English

meaningsoffunctionalandrelation

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functional
adjective
uk
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
us
/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən.əl/
designed to be practical and useful rather ...
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relation
noun
uk
/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
us
/rɪˈleɪ.ʃən/
the way in which two people or groups of people feel and behave towards ...
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(Definition offunctionalandrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffunctional relation

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Afunctionalrelationbetween learning and organization in free recall.
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These writers' language had "inhibition" describe both afunctionalrelationbetween nervous levels and an embodiment of mental control.
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At deny, we have 'not true', which bears littlefunctionalrelationto the sense it is intended to signal.
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The example of moles and earthworms is important because it illustrates the closefunctionalrelation that exists between the capabilities of action and perception systems.
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Each of the models is in the form of a delay-differential equation and afunctionalrelationwhich represents the hysteresis behaviour of the system.
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It does not define afunctionalrelationbetween the domain of scenarios and the domain of target models.
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Afunctionalrelationbetween individual and collective judgments could be deemed normatively desirable for a variety of reasons, such as epistemic or democratic legitimacy goals.
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Each of the models consists of a delay-differential equation and a hysteresisfunctionalrelation.
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Depending upon thefunctionalrelationbetween a disorder and a dynamic predictor, we expect to see different trajectories of dynamic predictors.
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In the other approach, utterances are interpreted from the linguistic structure on the basis of theirfunctionalrelationto the previous interaction.
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Identifying the unit of analysis as the observedfunctionalrelationbetween behavior and environment allows orderly relation to be observed and described at the level of behavior-environment interactions.
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Information about what speech act is being carried out and itsfunctionalrelationto the previous interaction and the specifications of the focal parameters is sufficient.
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He has given a complete numerical solution and also derived afunctionalrelationbetween the area change in the channel and the pressure rise at the detonation wave.
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In this context, the series approximates thefunctionalrelationof the output to the entire history of system input at any time.
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A rating curve is thefunctionalrelationbetween stage and discharge.
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The precision of the results is severely restricted due to weak empirical evidence on fundamental functional relations and parametric values.
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In contrast, late system morphemes are activated by positional or functional relations outside of their maximal projections.
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These functional relations will show that there exists a critical mass ratio, below which the synchronization regime extends to infinity.
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Indeed, our morphisms are terms, while theirs are functional relations.
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