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- noun Plural form of
functional .
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Examples
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There are few meta-global solution functionals that are as detail-annihilating than some kind of average temperature of some parts of the systems over the entire solution domain and for an entire year. steve
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We've replaced everything except the heaters, and we've rung those out with at least five separate checks and full functionals afterwards, and now have extremely high confidence that the problem is no longer on the ship or in any of the electronics, Moses said.
NASA is Confident that Shuttle Endeavour Problem is Fixed 2011
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Looking at global solution functionals in attempts to tune parameters under such conditions can frequently result in getting the right answer for the wrong reason and introduction compensating errors into the modeling.
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Inferences from previous investigations have been confounded with issues concerning the preference functionals of the agents.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Give back to the functionals the power to control raises and hiring and firing.
Lack of Discipline = Slaughter of the Innocents - NASA Watch 2008
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I would expect a lot more “functionals” like you have to deal with at the local DMV in areas where there were a lot of clerical workers, but I saw more of the young idealists than anything.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Because the Democrats “Believe in” Government: 2009
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It uses computable functionals to interpret the proofs of intuitionistic arithmetic.
Chores 2009
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Most of these wave functionals are over metric configuration variables which have no classical description, or in fact have no possible dynamical (diffeomorphic) description.
Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008
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Inferences from previous investigations have been confounded with issues concerning the preference functionals of the agents.
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“Social welfare functionals and interpersonal comparability”, in Arrow,
Economics and Economic Justice Fleurbaey, Marc 2008
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