Definition: 1. Designed for or capable of a particular function or use. 2. Involving or affecting function rather than physiology. 3. Relating to or based on function especially as opposed to structure. 4. Fit or ready for use or service.
Use 'functional' in a sentence:
1. There is no way around the fact that containers, shelters, and supports must be functional.
2. This highly functional walking style allows penguins to save roughly eighty percent of the mechanical energy they use while walking.
3. This weekend NPR ferreted out the story behind the ever-present and never functional "Free Public WiFi".
4. The telephone was out of order, but is functional now.
5. But it was a chance stumbling upon a run-down, yet functional, laboratory in his late grandfather's home that solidified the young man's enthusiasm for chemistry.
6. Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organizing employees into cross disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.
7. The second, choice the most functional knowledge;
8. Community functions include project management functional design and community management function design.
9. Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.
10. Sloth bears also have relatively large canine teeth, which appear to be more functional for fighting than for foraging.
11. However, not all functional objects are exactly alike; that is why we recognize a Shang Dynasty vase as being different from an Inca vase.
12. The chairs were comfortable, functional, and free of ornamentation.
13. The decor is functional.
14. For women in the military, the search for equality will still be based on functional equivalence, not identity or even similarity of task.
15. The chairs were comfortable, functional and free of ornamentation.
16. Israel will face harsh new trials entailing territorial and functional concessions.
17. Second, heels are quite functional for defense against oncoming enemies, who can easily be scared away by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion accessories.
18. Bathrooms don't have to be purely functional.
19. Predictive Functional Control for Integrating Processes and the Performance Analysis.
20. The furniture is not fancy, just functional.
21. He stood out in three ways—as a technologist, as a corporate leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets.
22. This is a fully functional automaton.
23. Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organizing employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.
24. Any public space has been carefully designed by an artistic mind to be both functional and beautiful.
25. Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.
26. Investigation on the CAD Modelling Method for Ideal Functional Material Components.
27. In a 2011 study, Steinberg and his colleagues turned to functional MRI to investigate how the presence of peers affects the activity in the adolescent brain.
28. Some species use their sense of hearing more than their eyes as a matter of adaptation to a particular lifestyle, but their eyes are still functional.
29. An Idea on Introducing the Process of Functional Grammar into Teaching.
30. He stood out in three ways—as a technologist, as a corporate leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal functional gadgets.
31. Hierarchical Assembly Model Based on Functional Components and Technology.
32. Felicity's bedroom was spartan but functional.
33. Effect of electric field on the combustion synthesized functional gradient materials.
34. Predictive Functional Control Based on Fuzzy Model for HVAC Systems.
35. Stock Price Analysis and Net point Observation Functional Relationship Model.
36. System decomposition ( different from functional decomposition).
37. The legs were certainly functional both on land and at sea.
38. Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems.
39. Because their primary purpose is not functional, they are only limited in terms of the materials used to make them.
40. Their furniture was more aesthetic than functional.
41. The hospital will soon be fully functional.
42. We have fully functional smoke alarms on all staircases.
43. In studies, he gave subjects a chance to deceive for monetary gain while examining their brains in a functional MRI machine, which maps blood flow to active parts of the brain.
44. Hawthorn is also recommended in cases of functional heart pain and mild arrhythmias.
45. Most recognizable of the ship designs are the ship's smoke stacks, but the fourth stack was actually just artistic in nature and served no functional purpose.
46. Their clothing is primarily functional and only secondarily decorative.
47. The mirror is functional yet decorative.
48. Whereas now, as I near the end of my fourth decade, I realize work can be fully functional and entirely fulfilling without needing to be best mates with the people sitting next to you.
49. The Chromosome is now losing important genetic information and is no longer functional.
50. The office was large and functional rather than welcoming.
51. These units played a key functional role in the military operation.
