“The main function of merchant banks is to raise capital.”
“Food and drinks were provided to guests at a formal function to celebrate the event.”
“Grammar is just a natural function of children's brains, and they apply it to whatever they find.”
functionalism
(architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction
“While her work features the austerity and functionalism of Modernism, it somehow seems softer, more human and witty.”
“Moreover, where Futurism and functionalism shared common ground, the cultural components in their assessment of flight must also be noted.”
“This compression, however, led Futurism and functionalism to opposing perspectives on the modern world and the direction in which it was heading.”
functional
(mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function y=f(x) whose argument x varies in a space of (real valued, complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example: the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
(uncountable) The ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
(US, law, uncountable) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
“One sunny afternoon last month, I sat drinking a glass of tea in the office of a functionary in Mus, a market town in eastern Anatolia known for producing sugar beets and tobacco.”
“A few days later a senior RSS functionary was knifed to death by unknown assailants in the district.”
“But they should abandon the illusion that the news manager can be dropped as an official functionary.”
“Fluorination of CNTs is also common because its quantification is very simple and no solvent is needed for such type of functionalization.”
“The anti-Markovnikov aldimine products of these reactions are particularly useful intermediates for further functionalization to amine and aldehyde derivatives.”
“The result will be a reliable predictive method with which to rationally design substrates and catalysts to deliver improved selectivities in C-H functionalizations.”
“Functionalists have all along been committed to the possibility of extrabodily states playing the role of beliefs and desires.”
“He therefore argued that the symbol systems are not reflections of social structure as the Functionalists believed, but are imposed on social relations to organize them.”
