English Online Dictionary. What means functional? What does functional mean?
English
Etymology
From function + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃənəl/, /ˈfʌŋkt͡ʃnəl/
Adjective
functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)
- 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.
- (mathematics) Of or relating to a function or functions.
- (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
- Synonym: pure
- Antonym: imperative
- (medicine) 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
- non-functional, nonfunctional, unfunctional
- (antonym(s) of “medicine: not referrable to a change of structure”): organic
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Noun
functional (plural functionals)
- (mathematics) 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.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
- (computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
Derived terms
- functional analysis
- functional analysis diagram
- linear functional
Translations
References
- functional on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- “functional”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “functional”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “functional”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.