different between disciplinary vs functional

English

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin disciplinarius, from Latin disciplina (“instruction, teaching, field of study, habit”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s??pl?n??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?s.?.pl??n??i/

Adjective

disciplinary (comparative more disciplinary, superlative most disciplinary)

1. Having to do with discipline, or with the imposition of discipline.

   Debt can motivate or act as a disciplinary force for executives to achieve organizational efficiency.

2. For the purpose of imposing punishment.

   The school has announced that it will take disciplinary measures against the students who participated in the protest activities.

3. Of or relating to an academic field of study.

   We hope that psychologists will applaud good studies of scientific behavior and thought regardless of the disciplinary specialty of the author.

Translations

Noun

disciplinary (plural disciplinaries)

1. A disciplinary action.

English

Etymology

function +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??k(t)??n?l/, /?f??k(t)?n?l/

Adjective

functional (comparative more functional, superlative most functional)

1. In good working order.
2. Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function

   That sculpture is not merely artistic, but also functional: it can be used as a hatrack.

3. Only for functional purposes, notably in architecture

   A functional construction element generally must meet higher technical but lower aesthetical requirements

4. (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.
   • Antonym: imperative
5. (medicine) Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.

Synonyms

• functioning, working
• utilitarian

Antonyms

• dysfunctional
• non-functional, nonfunctional, unfunctional
• (medicine: not referrable to a change of structure): organic

Hyponyms

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

functional (plural functionals)

1. (mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; More precisely: A function ${\displaystyle y=f(x)}$ whose argument ${\displaystyle x}$ varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space. An example is the definite integration of integrable real functions in a real interval.
2. (mathematics, functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector space.
3. (computing) An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).

Derived terms

• functional analysis
• functional analysis diagram
• linear functional

Translations

References

• functional on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• functional in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• functional in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• functional at OneLook Dictionary Search