10 example sentences using functioning.
Functioning used in a sentence
Functioning in a sentence as a noun
For reference: Apple is willing to pay a maximum of $1 for patents that make their device a functioning phone.
The people who have lost their entire towns in the Philippines have no resources, nothing to eat and nowhere to go. There is no no longer a functioning economy.
It is well known that the functioning of our "higher" abilities like creativity and critical thinking are impaired under constant stress.
The price system in financial and real estate markets is completely insane and basically non-functioning.
If only I could meet this girl and let her know that it gets better in the end. Hopefully she finds her own Brampton, ON - somewhere she can be herself with other people without the feeling of being an artificial limb, rather than a part of a fully functioning body.
Functioning in a sentence as an adjective
Puts this in an entirely different light, doesn't it:Even when ostensibly not functioning, the Xbox One can run in a low-powered state, ready to be snapped on at a moment's notice.
But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice.
This is going to be one of those wonderful games of iterated group prisoner's dilemma, in which one member of a formerly functioning cartel has just publicly announced an intention to always play Defect.
As I mentioned earlier, the first cognitive revolution was stimulated by the achievements of automata, much as today, and complex devices were constructed to simulate real objects and their functioning: the digestion of a duck, a flying bird, and so on.
Judge Alsup had not disregarded this precedent but had found what in my view were superb ways of treating APIs in particular in a special way that rendered the copying of their SSO non-infringing - to wit, acknowledging that developing an API was even highly creative, a structure of this type, functioning as a method for compatibility only, should not in itself be protected by copyright but should be protected, if at all, only if it rose to the level of warranting patent protection.
Functioning definitions
process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
See also: operation performance
performing or able to perform its regular function; "a functioning flashlight"