Definition of Structures. Meaning of Structures. Synonyms of Structures

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Definition of Structures

Structure
Structure 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.

Meaning of Structures from wikipedia

- minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade...
- Structuring, also known as smurfing in banking jargon, is the practice of executing financial transactions such as making bank deposits in a specific...
- crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystalline material. Ordered structures occur from intrinsic...
- freestanding structures List of tallest towers List of tallest chimneys List of tallest buildings and structures List of tallest freestanding steel structures List...
- of pre-twentieth century structures by height History of the world's tallest buildings List of tallest buildings and structures McKenzie, Judith (2011)...
- minimalist program). It is tempting to regard deep structures as representing meanings and surface structures as representing sentences that express those meanings...
- industrial structures and today's post-industrial structures. As pointed out by Lawrence B. Mohr, the early theorists of organizational structure, Taylor...
- efficient data structures are key to designing efficient algorithms. Some formal design methods and programming languages emphasize data structures, rather than...
- self-supporting structures. These lists include structures with a minimum height of 500 metres (1640 feet). The lists of tallest structures from 400 to 500...
- Syntactic Structures is an important work in linguistics by American linguist Noam Chomsky, originally published in 1957. A short monograph of about a...