funct-, fungi- +

Someone whose reading and writing abilities are inadequately developed to meet everyday needs.

1. Belief that the intended function of something should determine its design, construction, and choice of materials, or a 20th-century design movement based on this.
2. Any philosophy or system that gives practical and utilitarian concerns priority over aesthetic concerns.
3. Any doctrine that stresses utility or purpose.
4. The analysis and explanation of social institutions according to the function they perform in society; for example, the family is seen as an institution for social stability and cohesion.

Functionalism is one of the early schools of psychological thought which took as the proper subject matter for psychological study those mental processes or chains of actions that demonstrate a usefulness in the adjustment of the organism to its environment.

The principles of functionalism have been absorbed into the main themes of contemporary psychology.

1. Someone who advocates, or works according to, the principles of functionalism.
2. A reference to functionalism.
3. Built or made according to the principles of functionalism by someone who is associated with the movement.

1. The quality of being functional or serving a purpose well.
2. A useful function within a computer application or program.
3. The capacity of a computer program or application to provide a useful function.

To make something or someone functional.

The level of skill in reading and writing that an individual needs to cope with everyday adult life.

1. Capable of operating or functioning.
2. Having or serving a utilitarian purpose.
3. Capable of serving the purpose for which has been designed.

1. Someone who performs official duties; especially, a person whose duties may be regarded as trivial or insignificant.
2. A person who functions in a specified capacity; especially, in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
3. Anyone who holds an office or a trust or who performs a particular function; such as, an official.

1. Carrying out an activity.
2. Performing or able to perform a regular function.

Incapable of performing the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person, a thing, or a group, etc.

Someone or something that performs an operation, activity, or a function.

1. The quality of being able of exchange or interchange something.
2. Being of such a nature that one part or quantity may be replaced by another equal part or quantity in the satisfaction of an obligation.
3. The standardization and interchangeability of listed options and futures contracts and certain other financial instruments with identical terms.

Fungibility permits either party to an opening transaction to close out a position through a closing transaction in an identical contract. All financial contracts with identical terms are not necessarily fungible, a fact that can increase risk in some markets.

Examples of highly fungible commodities are petroleum (gasoline), electricity, precious metals, and many currencies.

Fungibility has nothing to do with the ability to exchange one commodity for another. It has everything to do with exchanging one unit of a commodity with another unit of the same commodity.

1. Capable of being interchanged.
2. A description of commodities that can be traded or substituted for an equal amount of like commodity, usually to satisfy a contract.
3. Etymology: from Middle Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungi, "to perform, to execute, to discharge".

The harmonious contacts of a group of teeth with their antagonists.

1. In medicine, over-activity or over-production (in a gland or another part of the body).
2. An excessive functioning of a body organ.