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Functional food — is a food where a new ingredient(s) (or more of an existing ingredient) has been added to a food and the new product has a new function (often one related to health promotion or disease prevention).[1] The general category of functional foods… … Wikipedia
Functional decomposition — refers broadly to the process of resolving a functional relationship into its constituent parts in such a way that the original function can be reconstructed (i.e., recomposed) from those parts by function composition. In general, this process of … Wikipedia
Functional Grammar — (FG) ist eine linguistische Theorie, die Ende der 1970er Jahre von Simon Cornelis Dik in Amsterdam entwickelt wurde, ausdrücklich als Gegenmodell zum Standard Modell der Transformationsgrammatik von Noam Chomsky. Nach dem Tod Diks 1995 wurde die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Functional reactive programming — ( FRP for short) is a programming paradigm for reactive programming using the building blocks of functional programming [cite web|author=Henrik Nilsson|title=Functional Reactive Programming Research|url=http://www.haskell.org/frp/|accessdate=2006 … Wikipedia
Functional temporalism — is an anthropological theory drawing prominently from the functionalistic and postmodern schools of thought first discussed by Clifford Geertz. It is also heavily indebted to the symbolistic tradition in sociolinguistics. The theory ostensibly… … Wikipedia
Functional group — For other uses, see Functional group (disambiguation) and Moiety (disambiguation). Benzyl acetate has an ester functional group (in red), an acetyl moiety (circled with green) and a benzyloxy moiety (circled with orange). Other divisions can be… … Wikipedia
Functional derivative — In mathematics and theoretical physics, the functional derivative is a generalization of the directional derivative. The difference is that the latter differentiates in the direction of a vector, while the former differentiates in the direction… … Wikipedia
Functional (mathematics) — In mathematics, a functional is traditionally a map from a vector space to the field underlying the vector space, which is usually the real numbers. In other words, it is a function that takes a vector as its argument or input and returns a… … Wikipedia
Functional predicate — In formal logic and related branches of mathematics, a functional predicate, or function symbol, is a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term.Functional predicates are also sometimes called mappings ,… … Wikipedia
functional hallucination — Historically the term functional hallucination has had a variety of meanings and connotations. The German expression funktionelle Hallucination was introduced in or shortly before 1866 by the German psychiatrist Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
