Functional

Adjective

 * 1) In good working order.
 * 2) Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
 * That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.
 * 1) Only for fuctional purposes, notably in architecture
 * ''A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements
 * 1)  Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
 * 2)  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

 * functioning, working
 * utilitarian

Antonyms

 * dysfunctional
 * organic

Derived terms

 * function
 * functional analysis
 * functional analysis diagram
 * functional anatomy
 * functional application
 * functional bombing
 * functional constraint
 * functional decomposition
 * functional design
 * functional diagram
 * functional disorder
 * functional electrical stimulation


 * functional error recovery
 * functional failure
 * functional group
 * functional interleaving
 * functional programming
 * functional requirement
 * functional residual capacity
 * functional specifications
 * functional switching circuit
 * functional unit
 * functionality
 * functionally

Related terms

 * functionary

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Thesaurus
acting, active, adjectival, advantageous, adverbial, agential, agentival, agentive, appropriate, at work, attributive, banausic, behavioral, beneficial, commodious, conjunctive, copulative, correct, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, employable, essential, expedient, fitting, formal, functioning, glossematic, go, going, going on, good for, grammatic, handy, helpful, important, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, industrial, intransitive, linking, managerial, manipulational, neuropsychiatric, nominal, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, official, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operational, operative, participial, performing, postpositional, practicable, practical, practicing, pragmatical, prepositional, pro, professional, pronominal, proper, psychiatric, psychobiological, psychodynamic, psychogenic, psychological, psychoneurological, psychopathic, psychopathological, psychophysical, psychophysiological, psychosexual, psychosocial, psychosomatic, psychotic, running, serviceable, serving, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, technical, transitive, useful, utilitarian, verbal, vocational, working

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: functionerend, operationeel, werkend
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 * Greek: λειτουργικός (lightorghikós)
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 * Russian: функционирующий (funkcioníruyuš'ij), действующий (d'éjstvuyuš'ij), рабочий (rabóčij)
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 * Dutch: functioneel, doelmatig
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 * Japanese: (, benrina)
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 * Czech:
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 * Italian:
 * Russian: функциональный (funkcionál'nyj)


 * : 功能


 * : funcional

Noun

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