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Productivity vs Functionality - What's the difference?

productivity | functionality |

As nouns the difference between productivity and functionality

is that productivity is the state of being productive, fertile or efficient while functionality is the ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.

productivity

English

Noun

(wikipedia productivity) (productivities)
  • the state of being productive, fertile or efficient
  • the rate at which goods or services are produced by a standard population of workers
  • the rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land

    • Synonyms

    * productiveness (much less common)

    functionality

    English

    Noun

  • 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.
    • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4] (pdf) from [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/chemical-synthesis/learning-center/aldrichimica-acta.html Sigma-Aldrich
  • :: The vinyldiazomethanes that have been commonly used in our studies contain an electron-withdrawing group adjacent to the diazo functionality .

    • Related terms

    * function * functional