main function
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainandfunction
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main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
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function
noun
uk/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/us/ˈfʌŋk.ʃən/
the natural purpose (of something) or the duty (of ...
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(Definition ofmainandfunctionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain function
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The wrappedmainfunctionperforms some initialization, calls the oldmainfunction, and then tidies up the results.
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Competition among asset managers is discouraged if theirmainfunctionis to meet quantitative asset restrictions.
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Themainfunctionof the gripper is to provide friction for robot locomotion.
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Religious ceremonials of some kind must be inferred as theirmainfunction.
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Starting from themainfunction, shape information is propagated from outermost to innermost.
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Themainfunctionof the latter is dialogue control in terms of updating information states.
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Themainfunctionof theory for practitioners is in explaining clinical phenomena.
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In these cases, themainfunctionof well is interpersonal rather than textual.
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The practical-difference thesis is related to themainfunctionof rules in practical deliberation.
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Themainfunctionof only here is apparently to emphasize this reading.
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These examples constitute a new structural type, but theirmainfunctionis still on the textual level.
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To suggest that that was hismainfunctionwould clearly do less than justice to the importance of his work.
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Themainfunctionflat is recursive, taking a list of lists and returning a list of natural numbers.
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The statistical tests presented here have themainfunctionof identifying potentially interesting factor crossproducts for more detailed investigation.
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Based on the requirements, the functional structure, solution concepts, and preliminary layouts ofmainfunctioncarriers are developed iteratively.
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Themainfunctionof the instructing and teaching module is off-line path planning, teaching and instructing.
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Themainfunctionof this lexicon, however, is to serve as a basis for the semantic query expansion.
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Themainfunctionis decomposed into various subfunctions depending upon, its complexity, and then transformed to design objects.
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The cobot'smainfunctionis to realize a "virtual guiding surface" along which the part can be manoeuvred and positioned.
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