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What's The Definition Of Structure?
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[n] the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the structure of the benzene molecule" [n] [n] the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure" [n] the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" [v] give a structure to; "I need to structure my days" Synonyms | Synonyms for Structure: anatomical structure | bodily structure | body structure | complex body part | construction | social organisation | social organization | social structure | social system Related Terms | Find terms related to Structure: See Also | airdock | altar | alveolar bed | apodeme | arcade | arch | architecture | area | arena | arrangement | artefact | artifact | aster | balcony | ball | bascule | base | blade | boarding | bodily cavity | body | body part | bony labyrinth | bowl | branchial arch | branchial cleft | bridge | building | building complex | bulb | caliculus | calycle | calyculus | capsule | cardcastle | cardhouse | carina | cartilaginous structure | catchment | cauda | cavity | cavum | centromere | chiasm | chiasma | cingulum | class structure | cognition | coil | colonnade | column | complex | composition | computer architecture | concha | configuration | constellation | constitution | convolution | coordinate | corner | cross | cytoarchitectonics | cytoarchitecture | deathtrap | decussation | defence | defense | defensive structure | divider | door | edifice | entablature | erection | establishment | fabric | feudal system | feudalism | filament | filum | floor | fold | foot | form | form of government | foundation | fountain | framework | fundament | fundus | funiculus | germ | gill arch | gill bar | gill cleft | gill slit | glans | groundwork | gyrus | hangar | head | helix | hill | house of cards | housing | hull | impediment | impedimenta | infrastructure | infundibulum | interstice | jungle gym | kinetochore | knowledge | lacrimal apparatus | lamination | landing | landing place | landmark | layer | level | limbus | living accommodations | lodging | lookout | lookout station | makeup | masonry | matriarchate | matriarchy | membranous labyrinth | memorial | meritocracy | monument | morphology | mound | neural structure | noesis | nucleolar organiser | nucleolar organizer | nucleolus organiser | nucleolus organizer | observation tower | observatory | obstructer | obstruction | obstructor | offset | organisation | organise | organization | organize | osseous labyrinth | pad | partition | passage | passageway | patriarchate | patriarchy | pattern | peristome | phrase structure | pillar | plate | plate | platform | plexus | plica | political system | porch | post and lintel | prefab | projection | public works | quoin | radicle | reconstitute | repair shed | restructure | rete | rib | root | segregation | sentence structure | set back | setoff | shape | shelter | shoebox | sign | signboard | society | sound structure | span | spiral | stadium | storey | story | structural member | substructure | substructure | syllable structure | syntax | syrinx | system | system | tooth | tooth root | tube | tube-shaped structure | understructure | uvea | valve | vascular structure | volute | weapons platform | whorl | word structure Structure In Webster's Dictionary \Struc"ture\, n. [L. structura, from struere,
structum, to arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to E.
strew: cf. F. structure. Cf. {Construe}, {Destroy},
{Instrument}, {Obstruct}.]
1. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings;
construction. [R.]
His son builds on, and never is content Till the
last farthing is in structure spent. --J. Dryden,
Jr.
2. Manner of building; form; make; construction.
Want of insight into the structure and constitution
of the terraqueous globe. --Woodward.
3. Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent
particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a
rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.
It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. --Dana.
4. (Biol.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the
different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable
organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of
animals and plants; cellular structure.
5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some
size or magnificence; an edifice.
There stands a structure of majestic frame. --Pope.
{Columnar structure}. See under {Columnar}.
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