English Explanatory Dictionary

functional

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. In good working order.
  2. Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.
  3. Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.
  4. Of or relating to one's role or office; official.
  5. Characterizing functioning in environment, being symptoms that do not presuppose alteration of organic structure.
  6. Optimized for all-around physiological benefit.
  7. Of or relating to a function or functions.
  8. Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
  3. An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

Pronunciation

/ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/ /ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃnəl/ En-us-functional.ogg

Word forms

functional more functional most functional functionals

Etymology

From function + -al.

Synonyms

functioning working utilitarian functional in working order operational running like a top up pure

Antonyms

dysfunctional non-functional nonfunctional unfunctional organic out of order imperative

Related words

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 psychology 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

Derived words

afunctional amphifunctional anatomofunctional antifunctional bifunctional biofunctional biofunctionalization cofunctional ecofunctional eigenfunctional equifunctional eufunctional functional beverage functional constituency functional drink functional equivalence functional graph functionalise functionalism functionalist functionalistic functionality functionalization functionalize functional linguistics functional load functionally functional medicine functional music functional necrophilia functional training functional water fyborg heptafunctional heterofunctional immunofunctional interfunctional malfunctional monofunctional multifunctional neofunctional neurofunctional normofunctional oligofunctional pentafunctional plurifunctional polyfunctional positive linear functional prefunctional sociofunctional structural-functional superfunctional technofunctional teleofunctional tetrafunctional trifunctional unifunctional Minkowski functional functional analysis functional analysis diagram
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