The phrase "a distinctive function" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a specific role or purpose that is unique or characteristic of something.
Example: "The software has a distinctive function that sets it apart from its competitors, allowing for greater user customization."
Alternatives: "a unique role" or "a specific purpose".
In this role they have a distinctive function compared with the security services.
Lens shifts protein expression from the more efficient AQP1 in the equatorial epithelial cells to the less efficient water channel, AQP0, in the differentiating secondary fiber cells; perhaps, AQP0 performs a distinctive function.
Interestingly, genetic analyses on four-cell stage mouse embryo have recently unveiled a distinctive function of hemicentin in mitotic cytokinesis [ 7].
Five domains of BTK, comprising pleckstrin homology (PH), Tec homology (TH), Src homology 3 (Src), Src homology 2 (SH2), and the kinase domain TK, have been identified, with each having a distinctive function [ 5].
Plotting reading speed against print size creates a distinctive function with a large plateau of peak reading speed and a decline for text presented at very small or very large print sizes.
The view that "art is imitation" is at least as old as the Greek philosopher Plato (c. 428 c. 347 bce), and, although not widely held today, its long and distinguished history is evidence of its continuing hold on human beings as an account of the distinctive function of art.
These findings suggest the possibility that KLF12 has the distinctive function of being a 'higher-order originating regulator hub' that potentially spreads regulatory effects through DAR-FFC-mediated transmissions.
According to Steiner (2009), the dual apprenticeship system has a distinctive integration function because it absorbs youths who are leaving school early for certain reasons.
First, it is focused on the claim that "I know that such-and-such" always and only serves a distinctive performative function and so is never at the service of self-description.
(vii) The analogy comparing one's life as a whole to arts and crafts, each with its own distinctive function, operatio, seems weak, questionable and indeed question-begging.
The distinctive function of paragraph (E) — what it achieves that paragraph (A) does not — is to require substantial evidence to be found within the record of closed-record proceedings to which it exclusively applies.
