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functional

1. Psychol

a. relating to the purpose or context of a behaviour

b. denoting a psychosis such as schizophrenia assumed not to have a direct organic cause, like deterioration or poisoning of the brain

2. Maths a function whose domain is a set of functions and whose range is a set of functions or a set of numbers

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functional [′fəŋk·shən·əl]

(computer science)

In a linear programming problem involving a set of variablesx_j, j= 1, 2, …,n, a function of the formc₁x₁+c₂x₂+ ⋯ +c_nx_n(where thec_jare constants) which one wishes to optimize (maximize or minimize, depending on the problem) subject to a set of restrictions.

(mathematics)

Any function from a vector space into its scalar field.

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1.		functional - Working correctly.
2.		functional - Pertaining to functional programming.
3.		functional - higher-order function.