Functional

Functional may refer to:

• Movements in architecture:
  • Functionalism (architecture)
  • Form follows function
• Functional group, combination of atoms within molecules
• Medical conditions without currently visible organic basis:
  • Functional symptom
  • Functional disorder
• Functional classification for roads
• Functional organization
• Functional training

In mathematics

• Functional (mathematics), a term applied to certain scalar-valued functions in mathematics and computer science
  • Functional analysis
  • Linear functional, a type of functional often simply called a functional in the context of functional analysis
• Higher-order function, also called a functional, a function that takes other functions as arguments

In computer science, software engineering

• "Functional" (noun) may be used as a synonym for Higher-order function
• functional (C++), a header file in the C++ Standard Library
• Functional design, a paradigm used to simplify the design of hardware and software devices
• Functional model, a structured representation of functions, activities or processes in systems and software engineering
• Functional programming, a programming paradigm based on mathematical functions rather than changes in variable states
• In an ontology (information science), "functional" is a property or relation that can only hold a single value for a given individual

See also

• All pages with titles containing Functional
• Function (disambiguation)
• Functionalism (disambiguation)
• Functional group (disambiguation)
• Functional grammar (disambiguation)

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