"functional means" is a correct phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to tools or methods that have a practical purpose or effect. For example, "We need to find functional means of reducing energy consumption in our factory."
Play might appear to be a rather frivolous response to this, but in its broad sense it simply means any kind of enjoyable activity which is not a functional means to an end.
The murine major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II-restricted response has been extensively studied by functional means, but the engineering and purification of the native, empty form of the most-studied murine MHC class II molecule, IA, has been difficult to achieve.
The adsorption and diffusion of benzene, hexafluorinated benzene, perylene, perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic-3,4,9,10-diimide (PTCDI) and perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic dianhydride (PTCDA) on graphene has been studied by density functional means on a generalized gradient approximation level, including a semi-empirical correction to account for dispersive forces.
Through them, we are seeing large strides being made towards making crypto a functional means of exchange - this is the endgame.
The term "functional" means that organic causes of the symptoms are excluded.
For this reason, BH3-only proteins have been identified by functional means rather than by sequence homology.
The functional mean leads to the definition of a time dependent bias function that varies freely over durations of the activities.
Functional Mean position measurements for clear space opening were: N=3.7mm, IR=3.6mm and ER=4.0mm.
Acoustic features are obtained from low-level descriptors (LLDs) such as pitch, energy, duration, Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (mfcc), and voice quality parameters by applying functionals (mean, median, percentiles, etc).. Comprehensive list of LLDs and functionals is given in [27].
Employing the Segal Bargmann transform (S-transform for abbreviation) of regular Lévy white noise functionals, we define and study the generalized Lévy white noise functionals by means of their functional representations acting on test functionals.
Functional really means fun in this hotel.
