Structural
['strʌktʃ(ə)r(ə)l] or ['strʌktʃərəl]
Definition
(adj.) concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study .
(adj.) affecting or involved in structure or construction; 'the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements'; 'structural damage' .
(adj.) relating to or having or characterized by structure; 'structural engineer'; 'structural errors'; 'structural simplicity' .
(adj.) relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; 'structural unemployment in a technological society' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
(a.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.
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Examples
- I cleared out the building entirely to the walls and built my station of structural ironwork, running it up high. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was the clue that led to the important recognition of the structural identity of the dynamo and the modern type of electric motor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The structural cells build up around the nerve. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Far less conspicuous at first in everyday life, but finally far more important, was the extension of man's power over various structural materials. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was done by two structural experts; and not till he got their report as to ample factors of safety was Edison reassured as to this detail. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the construction of this building 5,200 tons of structural steel were used, the equivalent necessary to build a modern twenty-story skyscraper. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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