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Functional

adjective

Designed for or capable of a particular function or use. "Functional architecture"

Involving or affecting function rather than physiology.

Relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure. "Delegates elected on a functional rather than a geographical basis"

Fit or ready for use or service. Synonyms: operable, operational, usable, useable. "The lawnmower is a bit rusty but still usable" , "An operational aircraft" , "The dishwasher is now in working order"

Designed for or adapted to a function or use. "Functional architecture"

(of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing. Synonyms: operative, running, working. "A functional set of brakes"

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"Functional" Quotes from Famous Books

... return of time. It has cleverly been turned to practical account, however, in the treatment of disease. By a series of painstaking and brilliant experiments, the demonstration of the role played by "disassociated memories" in causing certain functional nervous and mental troubles has been achieved. It has been shown that severe emotional shocks, frights, griefs, worries, may be—and frequently are—completely effaced from conscious recollection, while continuing to be vividly remembered in the depths of the subconscious. ...

— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... the analysis of organisms reveals the same wonderful though familiar characteristics. The living organism is composed of parts which are called organs, and these differ from one another in structural and functional respects. Each of them performs a special task which the others do not, and each differentiated organ does its part to make the whole creature an efficient mechanism. The leg of the frog is an organ of locomotion, the heart is a device for pumping blood, the stomach accomplishes ...

— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... extremity of each, is a digit with three joints of the same general character as those of the middle digit, only very much smaller. These small digits are so disposed that they could have had but very little functional importance, and they must have been rather of the nature of the dew-claws, such as are to be found in many ruminant animals. The Hipparion, as the extinct European three-toed horse is called, in fact, ...

— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley

... completely modern, functional system of government at the national level, we in Washington will at last be able to provide government that is ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... the meaning of shapes. In the paths of evolution there are grass eaters and berry eaters and root diggers. Each has its functional shape of face and neck—and its wide, startled-looking eyes to see and run away from the hunters. In all their racial history they have never killed to eat. They have been killed and eaten, or run away, and they ...

— The Carnivore • G. A. Morris

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