functional
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functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)
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- 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 fuctional purposes, notably in architecture
- A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements
- (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
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in good working order
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useful, serving a purpose
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utilitarian — see utilitarian
Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects
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functional (plural functionals)
- (mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function y=f(x) whose argument x varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
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a function that takes a function as its argument
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