functional

English

/ˈfʌŋk(t)ʃənəl/

adj
Definitions
  • In good working order.
  • Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function
  • Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture
  • (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
  • (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.

Etymology

Suffix from English function.

Origin

English

function

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