Difference between Operational and Functional

What is the difference between Operational and Functional?

Operational as an adjective is of or relating to operations, especially military operations while Functional as an adjective is in good working order.

Operational

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of or relating to operations, especially military operations functioning and ready for use effective or operative

Functional

Part of speech: noun

Definition: 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.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: In good working order.Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a functionOnly for fuctional purposes, notably in architectureHaving semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.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.

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