1. functional - Noun
2. functional - Adjective
3. functional - Adjective Satellite
Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function. Jonathan Ive
Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. Earle Brown
A new level of organization means a simplification of system function, and of the corresponding system structure, it also means the initiation of a process of progressive structural and functional complexification. Ervin László
Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family. Christopher Walken
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. Ferdinand Porsche
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. John Kenneth Galbraith