functional

Meanings

Plural: functionals

Adjective

• designed for or capable of a particular function or use
  • "a style of writing in which every word is functional"
  • "functional architecture"
• involving or affecting function rather than physiology
  • "functional deafness"
• relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure
  • "the problem now is not a constitutional one; it is a functional one"
  • "delegates elected on a functional rather than a geographical basis"

Adjective Satellite

• fit or ready for use or service
  • "the toaster was still functional even after being dropped"
• designed for or adapted to a function or use
  • "functional education selects knowledge that is concrete and usable rather than abstract and theoretical"
  • "functional architecture"
• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
  • "a functional set of brakes"

Adj

• In good working order.
• Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.
• Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.
• Of or relating to one's role or office; official.
• Of or relating to a function or functions.
• Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
• 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.

Noun

• 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.
• A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
• An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

Synonyms

functional, functioning, in working order, operable, operational, operative, pure, running, usable, useable, utilitarian, working

Antonyms

dysfunctional, imperative, non-functional, nonfunctional, organic, out of order, unfunctional

Related Words

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