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  • noun A secondary or subsidiary function.

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ function

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Examples

  • PAYGO is small ball. entitlements are eating us alive. everything else is on the margins. lists below are accounted for by government function & subfunction, as reported in the budget. in dollar priority order:

    Think Progress » Senate Republicans Called For Commitment To PAYGO Before Voting Against It 2010

  • PAYGO is small ball. entitlements are eating us alive. everything else is on the margins. lists below are accounted for by government function & subfunction, as reported in the budget. in dollar priority order:

    Think Progress » Senate Republicans Called For Commitment To PAYGO Before Voting Against It 2010

  • The Social Text tribe sees science as merely a subfunction of the covering category "culture," while Weinberg flatly states, "The discoveries of physics may become relevant to philosophy and culture when we learn the origin of the universe or the final laws of nature, but not for the present."

    Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange Byers, Nina 1996

  • An exon in the genome would thus correspond to a particular subfunction in the protein and the rearrangement of exons could result in a new combination of subfunctions in a protein.

    Physiology or Medicine 1993 - Press Release 1993

  • Formal responsibility for assigning, instructing and reviewing the work of this unit or subfunction.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

  • Responsible for supervising one unit or subfunction.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2011

  • Someone just needs to implement it as a subfunction of MVTools with optimizations, something which I am currently not capable of.

    Doom9's Forum PitifulInsect 2010

  • This includes subfunction 051 for the Department of Defense, subfunction 053 for defense activities within the Department of Energy, and subfunction 054 for defense activities in a variety of other governmental departments.

    Abnormal Returns Now 2010

  • In this case, we would create a subfunction findfirst/findnext family -- findabunch to allow filemanager to make a single call to get directory information.

    Boycott Novell 2009

  • To clearify, every time a window is activated, I want to do a set of tasks - whether they can be done using a label / subfunction or a function doesn't matter.

    AutoHotkey Community 2008

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