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How to pronounce functional
Say it like this: /ˈfʌŋkʃənəl/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does functional mean?
adjIn 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.”
nounA 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).
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