Adverb
In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog. Grady Booch
The ethos of science involves the functionally necessary demand that theories or generalizations be evaluated in [terms of] their logical consistency and consonance with facts. Robert K. Merton
I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things. Ken Thompson
They depend on which actual path of intermediation it may functionally strike into: the word "or" names a genuine reality. William James
For the foreseeable future, Canada will have to be functionally bimetric, as well as a bilingual, country. Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)
Any education system that only memorizes things creates robots and will never produce Nobel laureates. Any education system that only emphasizes improvisation will get a bunch of people who may think they are creative, but they are functionally illiterate. John Medina