function
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3. An official ceremony or a formal social occasion.
4. Something closely related to another thing and dependent on it for its existence, value, or significance: Growth is a function of nutrition.
5. Abbr. f Mathematics. a. A variable so related to another that for each value assumed by one there is a value determined for the other. b. A rule of correspondence between two sets such that there is a unique element in the second set assigned to each element in the first set.
verb
functioned
To have or perform a function; serve: functioned as ambassador.
[Latin fūnctiō, fūnctiōn-, performance, execution, from fūnctus past participle of fungī, to perform, execute.]
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