English-Russian glossary of the book Meskon. 2014.
functional — func‧tion‧al [ˈfʌŋkʆnəl] adjective [only before a noun] 1. connected with the purpose for which something is made or used, or with the job that someone does: • Three key functional areas of management are marketing, production and personnel… … Financial and business terms
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Functional flow block diagram — The Functional Flow Block Diagram (FFBD) is a multi tier, time sequenced, step by step flow diagram of the system’s functional flow. [The first version of this article is completely based on the [http://www.faa.gov/about/office org/headquarters… … Wikipedia
