structural
/'strʌktʃərəl/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Relating to the arrangement and interrelation of parts in a complex entity: Pertaining to the way something is built, organized, or put together.
- Concerned with the load-bearing framework or form of a building or object: Involving the elements that give a construction its shape, strength, and stability.
- Arising from or relating to the fundamental nature of a system, especially in politics or economics: Resulting from the basic organization or framework of a society or institution.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The architect reviewed the structural plans for the new bridge.
- Earthquakes can cause significant structural damage to buildings.
- The report analyzed the structural problems within the education system.
Advanced Usage
"Structural integrity": The ability of a structure to withstand its intended load without breaking or deforming excessively.
- Engineers tested the building's structural integrity after the fire.
"Structural adjustment": A set of economic policies, often required by international lending institutions, aimed at reducing government deficits and modifying the economic structure of a country.
- The country underwent a painful structural adjustment program.
"Structural linguistics": An approach to linguistics that analyzes language as a system of interrelated units and structures.
- His research is grounded in the principles of structural linguistics.
Variants and Related Words
Structure (n): The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.
- The social structure of the community was very hierarchical.
Structurally (adv): In a way that relates to structure.
- The building is structurally sound.
Restructure (v): To organize something differently.
- The company had to restructure its debt.
Synonyms
- Constitutional: Relating to the basic nature or structure of something.
- Organizational: Relating to the way in which something is organized.
- Framework: (as a conceptual synonym) The basic structure underlying a system or concept.
Related Phrases
- Structural beam: A horizontal load-bearing element in a building.
- Structural inequality: Inequality that is built into the organization of a social system.
- Structural formula: A diagram showing the arrangement of atoms in a molecule.
Related Idioms
- Poverty is often a form of structural violence.
Adjective
- relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
- morphological differences
- pertaining to geological structure
- geomorphological features of the Black Hills
- morphological features of granite
- structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface
- concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
- affecting or involved in structure or construction; not ornamental elements"
- the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters
- structural damage
- relating to or having or characterized by structure
- structural engineer
- structural errors
- structural simplicity
- relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
- structural unemployment in a technological society