Sentence examples for a third function from inspiring English sources

A third function is to reduce the temperature of the base metal in the case of thermal barrier coatings.

A third function is to reduce the temperature of the base metal in the case of thermal barrier applications.

A third function of worship is that of providing personal support to individual members of a group or of a society.

A third function of doctrine is polemical: the defense of the faith against misinterpretation and error, within or without a religious tradition.

Aaron J. Corcoran and William E. Conner of Wake Forest University, and Jesse R. Barber of Colorado State University, show that for the Bertholdia trigona species, the clicks serve a third function.

A third function or capacity of "the knowing" is discursive knowledge, here equated with understanding (A6).

Under the process of "addition exaptation", a feature that is functional in one capacity assumes a second function without losing its original function (Arnold 1994).

But its name suggests a second function.

Throughout the apartheid period, art centers served a second function.

Eyelashes have, like many other bodily features, acquired a second function as a signal.

In short order, Roux took on a second function as Guinness' controller; later he became the financial director.