Phrase Hound found 55 phrases and 61 compound words that contain functional. The most common are listed below. Open functional in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 55
- functional analysisThe branch of mathematics dealing with infinite-dimensional vector spaces, whose elements are actually functions, as well as generalizations such as Banach spaces and Hilbert spaces.
- functional programmingProgramming in a style that, in lieu of assignment, uses procedure calls to bind variables to values, so that referential transparency is preserved.
- functional groupA specific grouping of elements that is characteristic of a class of compounds, and determines some properties and reactions of that class.
- functional loadTargeted exposure of an implement or organ to stimuli or other straining it is supposed or being tested to tolerate.
- functional requirementsplural of functional requirement: A condition or capability that a system, person or object has to satisfy, fulfill or comply with.
- functional foodAny fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.
- functional groupsplural of functional group: A specific grouping of elements that is characteristic of a class of compounds, and determines some properties and reactions of that class.
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- functional requirementA condition or capability that a system, person or object has to satisfy, fulfill or comply with.
- functional musicMusic designed to influence mood, behavior, or cognitive state.
- truth-functionalOf or relating to a truth function; having a truth value that depends solely on the truth values of its components.
- functional beverageA beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.
- functional drinkSynonym of functional beverage: A beverage with added ingredients, consumed for its supposed health benefits.
- functional medicineA form of alternative medicine; its many critics have asserted that it is the same as integrative medicine or is an especially pernicious subset thereof; many consider all of these things pseudoscientific (for example, with deliberately …
- functional trainingExercise which involves training the body for the activities performed in daily life.
- functional magnetic resonance imagingA form of magnetic resonance imaging that records the flow of blood to areas of the brain when the patient is undertaking a specific neural activity.
- functional psychologyA psychological school of thought that was a direct outgrowth of Darwinian thinking which focuses attention on the utility and purpose of behavior that has been modified over years of human existence.
- linear functionalA linear mapping from a vector space to its field of scalars.
- functional dependencyGiven a relation R and two sets of attributes X,Y⊆R, a constraint X→Y where each X value in R is associated with precisely one Y value in R.
- functional foodsplural of functional food: Any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic function of supplying nutrients.
- functional disordersplural of functional disorder: Any of a group of medical conditions due to changes to the functioning of the systems of the body rather than due to a disease affecting the structure of the body.
- functional linguisticsAn approach to the study of language characterized by systematically taking into account the speaker's and the hearer's sides, and the communicative needs of the speaker and of the given language community.
- structural-functionalOf or relating to structural functionalism.
- functional graphA directed graph whose every vertex has outdegree 1.
- non-functionalAlternative form of nonfunctional: Not functional; useless; broken.
Compound words 61
- biofunctionalHaving a biological function
- antifunctionalOpposing or hindering a function.
- electrofunctionalRelating to electrical functions.
- eufunctionalOf or pertaining to a eufunction; serving a function well.
- functionalisticPertaining to functionalism.
- hypofunctionalHaving a decreased function (especially of an endocrine gland)
- malfunctionalNot functioning as intended.
- neurofunctionalRelating to neurofunction.
- semifunctionalPartly functional.
- thermofunctionalHaving heat-related functionality.