(finance) An investment fund that makes investment decisions by sophisticated quantitative analysis.

plural of hedge fund

An island of the Republic of Malta.

plural of quant fund

(medicine) Any of several diagnostic procedures that test the blood clotting function of platelets

To raise funds for a specified cause or purpose.

(mathematics) A function from the real line to a finite subset of the real line.

(mathematics) A function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.

(calculus) A function f : X→R (where X is a subset of R, possibly a discrete set) that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases; that is, either x ≤ y implies f(x) ≤ f(y) or x ≤ y implies f(y) ≤ f(x).

(computer science) A function that takes one or more functions as an input, and returns a function as a result.