1. The action for which one is particularly fitted or employed. 2. Assigned duty or activity. 3. in my function as chief editor. 4. An official ceremony or a formal social occasion. 5. Growth is a function of nutrition. 6. A variable so related to another that for each value assumed by one there is a value determined for the other. 7. 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. 8. functioned as ambassador.