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  2. Form, fit and function - Wikipedia

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    Form, Fit, and Function (also F3 or FFF) is a concept used in various industries, including manufacturing, engineering, and architecture, to describe aspects of a product's design, performance, and compliance to a specification. F3 originated in military logistics to describe interchangeable parts: if F3 for two components have the same set of ...

  3. Form follows function - Wikipedia

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    The Wainwright Building in St. Louis, Missouri, designed by Louis Sullivan and built in 1891, is emblematic of his famous maxim "form follows function".. Form follows function is a principle of design associated with late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and industrial design in general, which states that the shape of a building or object should primarily relate to its intended ...

  4. Function composition - Wikipedia

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    Properties. The composition of functions is always associative —a property inherited from the composition of relations. [1] That is, if f, g, and h are composable, then f ∘ (g ∘ h) = (f ∘ g) ∘ h. [2] Since the parentheses do not change the result, they are generally omitted.

  5. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    It mainly focuses on the physical aspects of the artwork, such as medium, color, value, space, etc., rather than on what it communicates. [1] Content, on the other hand, refers to a work's subject matter, i.e., its meaning. [2][3] But the terms form and content can be applied not only to art: every meaningful text has its inherent form, hence ...

  6. Function (biology) - Wikipedia

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    In physiology, a function is an activity or process carried out by a system in an organism, such as sensation or locomotion in an animal. [1] This concept of function as opposed to form (respectively Aristotle's ergon and morphê[2]) was central in biological explanations in classical antiquity. In more modern times it formed part of the 1830 ...

  7. Function (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In mathematics, a function from a set X to a set Y assigns to each element of X exactly one element of Y. [1] The set X is called the domain of the function [2] and the set Y is called the codomain of the function. [3] Functions were originally the idealization of how a varying quantity depends on another quantity.

  8. Construction grammar - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns with meanings, are the fundamental building blocks of human language. Constructions include words (aardvark, avocado), morphemes (anti-, -ing), fixed ...

  9. Essence - Wikipedia

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    It is that which holds an entity together. That is, Dharma is that which gives integrity to an entity and holds the core quality and identity (essence), form and function of that entity. Dharma is also defined as righteousness and duty. To do one's dharma is to be righteous, to do one's dharma is to do one's duty (express one's essence). [16]