Functionality vs Effectiveness - What's the difference?
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The ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
(US, legal) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
(organic chemistry) The presence of a functional group.
:: The vinyldiazomethanes that have been commonly used in our studies contain an electron-withdrawing group adjacent to the diazo functionality .
The property of being effective, of achieving results.
The capacity or potential for achieving results.
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The degree to which something achieves results.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
As nouns the difference between functionality and effectiveness
is that functionality is the ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform while effectiveness is the property of being effective, of achieving results.functionality
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(wikipedia effectiveness)Noun
(-)- The effectiveness of the drug was well established.
- He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.
- United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.