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afunction

noun

Etymology

From a- + function.

  1. derived from *bʰewg-✻
  2. derived from functiō — “performance, execution”
  3. derived from fonction
  4. borrowed from function
  5. prefixed as afunction — “a + function”

Definitions

  1. Lack of function

    Lack of function; failure to work properly.

    • After six months a check-up examination demonstrated diastolic hypertension and the renogram revealed a total afunction of the right kidney which was probably due to a radiation damage and represented the cause of hypertension.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afunction. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA