Definition of "functioned" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of function. (verb)

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• "Throughout America's past the word functioned as a slur against black people."
• "At lower temperatures the protein functioned as it should, but not at higher."
• "But none of them thought of investigating whether these phenomena could be related to a new mechanism, differing both in the way it was arranged and the way it functioned from the known vasomotor-regulating mechanism."