function shift

function shift

or

function change

n
1. (Grammar) grammar a change in the syntactic function of a word, as when the noun mushroom is used as an intransitive verb
2. (Phonetics & Phonology) linguistics sound change involving a realignment of the phonemic system of a language
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This happy facility, variously called conversion or function shift, endows our vocabulary with vitality, power, and a prolific source of new words.
The design and function shift also allows the sensor to operate at higher temperatures than the outgoing system.
[Delta] [equivalent to] social benefit function shift parameter,
If their function shifts to carbon storage, logging is likely to shift back to native forests.
Much is known about the impacts of distribution function shifts on expected values and on optimal choices.
Toniolo is the only one which presents an empirical growth model which explicitly estimates the portions of GDP per capita growth due to pure-Solow production function shifts, scale economies, market-power shifts, and varying utilization of inputs.
This rhetoric paralleled the changing demographics; as more adolescents entered high school, its function shifted from that of an elite institution to that of an institution for the socialization of the great majority of American youth.
Consequently, the reduced-form illegal harvesting function shifts only as a result of direct effects, that is to say, changes in the parameters, a, b, Q, and T, and not through changes in E.