fine motor function produced from the small muscles within the hand itself.
A function supplied by the run-time library. Intrinsic functions may be inlined. Contrast with built-in function.
NCL: An identifier with a list of parameters, the parameters being separated by commas enclosed and in parentheses. Intrinsic functions return values when called. An intrinsic function is not defined by NCL source; it is a C or Fortran routine that has been added to the NCL function set. Intrinsic functions often perform operations that NCL source does not support.
A function built in to the language. In general, the data type of the arguments and returned value may be any valid data type.
a function supplied with Visual Basic
A function, supplied by Fortran, that performs mathematical or character operations.
In FORTRAN, a function that is supplied with the run-time environment that performs math, character, logical, or bit-manipulation operations.
A predetermined function included with Visual Basic. Examples of intrinsic functions include the type conversion functions, such as CStr(), which usually converts a numeric expression to a string value.
In compiler theory, an intrinsic function is a function available in a given language whose implementation is handled specially by the compiler. Typically, it substitutes a sequence of automatically-generated instructions for the original function call, similar to an inline function. Unlike an inline function though, the compiler has an intimate knowledge of the intrinsic function and can therefore better integrate it and optimize it for the situation.
