adj. In good working order.adj. Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a functionadj. Only for functional purposes, notably in architectureadj. Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.adj. 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.n. 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.n. (functional analysis) A scalar-valued linear function on a vector spacen. An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).