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func·tions
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Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
functions
The appropriate or assigned duties, responsibilities, missions, or tasks of an individual, office, or organization. As defined in the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, the term
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functionsnoun
Plural noun and verb form of the word function.
The organism had it vital functions monitored regularly during the scientific experiment and study.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of functions in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of functions in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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We want to build this service to be lean and agile, we're going to rely very heavily support functions from the The Air Force.
In general it's a very simple thing, what you have is batteries, very energy-dense batteries, and solar modules and the whole concept is that the battery basically gets recharged over the day and then supplies the whole energy during the night. That's the basic concept behind all these vehicles and then you basically have a standard configuration airplane that flies in that case autonomously, meaning that you have the autopilot that takes over the functions from the actual pilot.
We need to set up a commission that looks at the alternatives to ICE and really starts to understand how do we have these functions in a way that is accountable, transparent and humane.
The FSA has detained scores of ISIS fighters, both local Syrians and many foreigners as well. They are currently talking to the Turks about what should be done with these people, and in terms of capacity, we’re essentially talking about non-state actors – FSA, opposition rebels – attempting to perform state judicial functions of investigation and prosecution.
We intended this paper to serve as a humble blueprint for how researchers can use this technology to study the functions of coral genes, we are currently conducting experiments investigating how specific genes regulate coral skeletal formation, or calcification, for example. However, we expect this technique could be useful to identify genes involved in many other ecologically important traits such as thermal tolerance or coral bleaching.
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- المهامArabic
- les fonctionsFrench
- functiesDutch
- chức năngVietnamese
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