functional
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)
- In good working order.
- Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.
- That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.
- Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.
- A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements.
- Of or relating to one's role or office; official.
- functional responsibilities
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a function or functions.
- (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Synonym: pure
- Antonym: imperative
- (medicine) Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
- dysfunctional
- non-functional, nonfunctional, unfunctional
- (antonym(s) of "medicine: not referrable to a change of structure"): organic
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- eufunctional
- functional beverage
- functional constituency
- functional drink
- functional equivalence
- functionalism
- functionalist
- functionality
- functional linguistics
- functional load
- functionally
- functional necrophilia
- functional water
- monofunctional
- oligofunctional
- polyfunctional
- positive linear functional
- structural-functional
- trifunctional
Related terms edit
- function
- functional anatomy
- functional application
- functional bombing
- functional constraint
- functional decomposition
- functional dependency
- functional design
- functional diagram
- functional disorder
- functional electrical stimulation
- functional error recovery
- functional failure
- functional food
- functional genomics
- functional group
- functional interleaving
- functional magnetic resonance imaging
- functional MR imaging
- functional programming
- functional requirement
- functional reserve
- functional residual capacity
- functional root
- functional specifications
- functional switching circuit
- functional unit
- functional work
- functionary
- non-functional requirement
- trivial functional dependency
Translations edit
in good working order
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useful, serving a purpose
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only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
of or relating to a function or functions
having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects
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such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure
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Noun edit
functional (plural functionals)
- (mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space.
- An example of a functional is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
- (computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
a function that takes a function as its argument
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an object encapsulating a function pointer
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References edit
functional on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading edit
- “functional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “functional”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “functional”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.