Structure

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1. Noun

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

2. Noun

Manner of building; form; make; construction.

3. Noun

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.

4. Noun

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. Noun

That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.

6. Noun

the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure"
Vocabulary classified under Medicine and healthcare

7. Noun

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric

8. Noun

the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organizations of England and America are very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
Vocabulary classified under Sociology
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