functional.
In good working order.
Meaning & usage
In good working order.
Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.
That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.
Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.
A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements.
Of or relating to one's role or office; official.
functional responsibilities
Characterizing functioning in environment, being symptoms that do not presuppose alteration of organic structure.
Optimized for all-around physiological benefit.
functional coffee
functional fitness
Of or relating to a function or functions.
Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der. Proto-Italic *fungōr Latin fungor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fūnctiō Old French fonction Middle French functionbor. English function Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? 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.
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.
A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-der. Proto-Italic *fungōr Latin fungor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin fūnctiō Old French fonction Middle French functionbor. English function Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? 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.
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