Under Â§ 1505, however, a defendant can be convicted of obstruction of justice by obstructing a pending proceeding before Congress or a federal agency. A pending proceeding could include an informal investigation by an executive agency.
Piecewise is actually a way of expressing the function, rather than a characteristic of the function itself, but with additional qualification, it can describe the nature of the function.
Definition of cohere. cohered. ; cohering. intransitive verb. 1a : to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass; broadly : stick, adhereb : to display cohesion of plant parts. 2 : to hold together as a mass of parts that cohere. 3a : to become united in principles, relationships, or interestsb : to be logically or aesthetically consistent.