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functional

Word definitions for functional in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 In good working order. 2 useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function 3 Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture 4 (context computing theory English) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics , and particularly in functional analysis and the calculus of variations , a functional is a function from a vector space into its underlying scalar field , or a set of functions of the real numbers. In other words, it is a function that ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES functional food COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB as ▪ These needs are known as functional prerequisites. ▪ Purse nets remain unaffected and are as functional as at any other time. ▪ These authors see the spectating ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Functional \Func"tion*al\ (f[u^ ng]k"sh[u^]n*al), a. Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official. (Pathology, Physiol.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general; involving or affecting function rather ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture" [ant: nonfunctional ] involving or affecting function rather than physiology; "functional deafness" [ant: organic ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, "pertaining to function or office," from function (n.) + -al (1), or from Medieval Latin functionalis . Meaning "utilitarian" is by 1864; specific use in architecture is from 1928. Related: Functionally ; functionality .

Usage examples of functional.

The fact that you saw what you did confirms your ability to be functional at our destination.

Now the adrenal glands serve a vital functional purpose, necessary to the health of the normal man.

The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.

The eruption upon the skin is but a local manifestation of a functional fault, which must be overcome by alterative remedies.

He minced off giving the menu a flap as if to fan his face, and I followed him, back towards the car-park, then through a timber back-door and into a functional corridor.

Clovis point, with its functional design, its exquisite workmanship and its pronounced fluting, would be the finest work of art ever produced in the Centennial region.

Those provers who have taken experimentally a tincture made from the wood and bark and leaves of the Blackthorn, all had to complain of sharp pains in the right eyeball and accordingly the diluted tincture is found, when administered in small quantities, to give signal relief for ciliary neuralgia, arising from a functional disorder of the structures within the eyeball.

There was nothing in the system except the functional cogitative software and his own data, loaded from slivers.

Perhaps, finally, this cannot be represented by a juridical order, but it nonetheless is an order, an order defined by its virtuality, its dynamism, and its functional inconclusiveness.

Flinx was an experienced empathetic telepath, able to read the emotions of others, a very few humans were difficult to detect even when his talent was fully functional.

Statistics show that insanity is increasing with alarming rapidity everywhere, yet medical experts differ widely as to the causes of mental deterioration, and science is not yet in possession of knowledge of the exact etiology of functional insanity.

Even so, Boba Fett preferred keeping the craft as neatly functional as possible.

Then the cocoon opened and a fully functional gracile emerged, memories and intelligence intact.

Centaur scout ship, which had the best navigational information system in the Corridor, but Guz had never really used it, had only checked that it was fully functional.

Since then her kidney function is fully restored, her liver is 70 per-cent functional and improving rapidly, the vagina has been fully relined and the atrophied right lung has been absorbed with regrowth started.