functional

In good working order.

Adjective

  1. In good working order.
    • While we assume that phonological subsyllabic units are functional prior to reading skill, we have not ruled out a possible interaction with the writing system. - 2002, Ludo Verhoeven, Carsten Elbro, Pieter Reitsma,...
  2. Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.
    • That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.
    • The two are often one and the same, says Walt Thompson, professor of kinesiology at Georgia State University and lead author of the ACSM survey – although functional fitness can apply to the younger generation as well....
  3. Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.
    • A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements.
  4. Of or relating to one's role or office; official.
    • functional responsibilities
  5. Characterizing functioning in environment, being symptoms that do not presuppose alteration of organic structure.
    • The clinical differentiation between functional and organic disease is at times difficult to establish, because, presumptively, in the beginning, at least, all organic disease is preceded by a physiologic perversion,...
    • In our study of participants aged 18–39, increasing age was associated with improved functioning in laundry task and overall social functioning, encompassing prosocial activities, recreation, independence–competence,...
  6. Optimized for all-around physiological benefit.
    • functional coffee
    • functional fitness
  7. Of or relating to a function or functions.
  8. Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.

    Synonyms: pure

    Antonyms: imperative

Origin

Etymology tree Old French fonction Middle French functionbor. English function Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English functional From function + -al.

Forms

more functional most functional

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

dysfunctional non-functional nonfunctional unfunctional organic out of order

Hypernyms

preserved

Hyponyms

algofunctional crossfunctional difunctional hyperfunctional hypofunctional isofunctional metafunctional monofunctional morphofunctional myofunctional organofunctional parafunctional semifunctional subfunctional ultrafunctional

Related

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

Derived

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

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.
    • An example of a functional is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
  2. A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
  3. An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

Forms

functionals

Derived

Minkowski functional functional analysis functional analysis diagram linear functional