functional
English
Adjective
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
- (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- (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
Antonyms
- dysfunctional
- non-functional, nonfunctional, unfunctional
- (medicine: not referrable to a change of structure): organic
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- 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
in good working order
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useful, serving a purpose
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Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure
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having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects
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Noun
functional (plural functionals)
- (mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function y=f(x) whose argument x varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: 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
- functional analysis
- functional analysis diagram
- linear functional
Translations
a function that takes a function as its argument
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an object encapsulating a function pointer
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References
Further reading
- functional in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- functional in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- functional at OneLook Dictionary Search
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