It fulfills the functions of dozens of products including a watch, diary, alarm clock, barometer, satellite navigation system, Internet browser, dictionary, DVD player and MP3 player as well as a phone, and that's before we come on to those 100,000 apps.
Their HMG-box domain fulfills the function of DNA-binding, with the peculiarity that it binds DNA in the minor grove (reviewed in [18]).
Most people don't think of their everyday technologies such as contact lenses and PDAs as prosthetic devices, but the basic definition of a prosthetic as a manufactured device which fulfills the function of a biological body part is applicable.
Think of the iPhone, which fulfills the functions of a watch, phone, camera, clock, DVD and CD player, barometer, and so on.
In addition, Goldin-Meadow characterizes gesture when it fulfills the entire function of language (as in the case of Sign Languages of the Deaf), when it is reshaped to suit different cultures (American and Chinese), and even when it occurs in children who are blind from birth.
In placental mammals a special duct, the urethra, leads from the urinary bladder to the exterior; it fulfills the excretory function of the more primitive cloaca.
It fulfills the same function of pain in the human body.
These belong to the discretion of the individual, and it is the task of government to fulfill the function of protecting the exercise of each person's right to use or misuse their freedom as he sees fit.
"It is necessary to rely upon existing staff to fulfill the function of the needed security personnel," the school board resolution stated, according to The Associated Press.
It became part of the three-piece suit by the turn of the century, fulfilling the function of pocket-watch holder.
