Usually means: Designed to be practical, useful.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word functional:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. functional: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. functional: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. functional: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. functional: Collins English Dictionary
  5. functional: Vocabulary.com
  6. Functional, functional: Wordnik
  7. functional: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. functional: Wiktionary
  9. functional: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. functional: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. functional: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. functional: Dictionary.com
  13. functional: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Functional (mathematics), Functional: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Functional: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. functional: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. functional: Rhymezone
  18. functional: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. functional: Free Dictionary
  20. functional: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. functional: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. functional: Glossary of research economics
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Functional (disambiguation), functional: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. functional: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Functional (disambiguation), Functional (programming), functional: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Functional (disambiguation), functional: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Functional: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. functional, functional: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See functionality as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  In good working order.
adjective:  Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function.
adjective:  Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture.
adjective:  Of or relating to one's role or office; official.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of or relating to a function or functions.
adjective:  (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
adjective:  (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.
noun:  (mathematics) A 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.
noun:  (mathematics, functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
noun:  (computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

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