function-based
adjectiveUK /ˈfʌŋkʃən beɪst/
US /ˈfʌŋkʃən beɪst/
Made or decided by what something does, not by what it looks like.
The robot is function-based, so it is built to do a job rather than to look pretty.
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2. Organized around the jobs or tasks something must do.
The function-based team split the work by task instead of by person.
3. In math or computing, built from a set of functions or rules.
They wrote a function-based program that solves the puzzle step by step.
4. Judged by how well something works rather than by its style.
Her function-based review of the chair focused on comfort, not color.