"function to communicate" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to ways of communicating with others, such as the telephone, email, or face-to-face meetings. For example: "The telephone is an important function to communicate with others."
These brief encounters function to communicate Sally's belief in "a magical being," but how, or whether, such a belief informs her actions remains less certain.
Media for generations, the building now houses the new media to highlight its primary function: to communicate with heaven".
In epithelia, PCP core components function to communicate subcellular differences in polarized information between neighboring cells in a cell-cell contact-dependent manner (Vladar et al., 2009).
"Fanzines are intimate graphic objects," Triggs explains, "holding meaning through their form and content but at the same time functioning to communicate.
Upon examination, each symbol system reflects a specific cultural logic, and every symbol functions to communicate information between members of the culture in much the same way as, but in a more subtle manner than, conventional language.
The authors discuss the manipulation of the magnitude of fuzzy membership functions to communicate priorities within the system.
The speech recognition technology is mature enough to be used instead of complex manual actions, like menu selections and destination entry to the navigation system, reducing driver's distraction while synthesized voice is already used from several car functions to communicate with the driver.
SOAP provides standard interoperability functions to communicate between applications running on different operating systems, with different programming languages.
LEP functions to communicate the status of energy reserves with the central nervous system for the purpose of regulating metabolic stores (Rosenbaum et al., 2001).
It is responsible for (i) importing a subset of the Chado tables to Drupal, (ii) creating new tables in Drupal using Chado conventions; (iii) providing functions to communicate with Chado and Drupal database schemas; and (iv) providing other, generic, functions useful for bioinformatic module development.
