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action, activity, affair.
The teacher's function is to guide the students.
تتمثل وظيفة المعلم في توجيه الطلاب.
Machine function can be improved and upgraded.
يمكن تحسين عمل الآلة وتطويرها.
The function of this punishment is to deter others from committing the crime.
تكمن وظيفة هذه العقوبة في ردع الآخرين عن ارتكاب الجريمة.
1530s, "one's proper work or purpose; power of acting in a specific proper way," from French fonction (16c.) and directly from Latin functionem (nominative functio) "a performance, an execution," noun of action from funct-, past-participle stem of fungi "perform, execute, discharge," from PIE *bhung- "be of use, be used" (source also of Sanskrit bhunjate "to benefit, make benefit, atone," Armenian bowcanem "to feed," Old Irish bongaid "to break, harvest"), which is perhaps related to root *bhrug- "to enjoy." Meaning "official ceremony" is from 1630s, originally in church use. Use in mathematics probably was begun by Leibnitz (1692). In reference to computer operations, 1947.
