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struc·tur·al

 (strŭk′chər-əl)
adj.
1.
a. Of, relating to, having, or characterized by structure: structural simplicity.
b. Affecting structure: structural damage.
2. Used in or necessary to building: structural beams.
3. Concerned with or resulting from political or especially economic structure.
4. Geology Of or relating to the structure of rocks and other aspects of the earth's crust.
5. Biology Of or relating to organic structure; morphological.
6. Relating to or concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study, such as linguistics or the behavioral sciences.
n.
A part of a structure that bears a weight, or the structural piece used for such a part.

struc′tur·al·ly adv.
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structural

(ˈstrʌktʃərəl)
adj
1. of, relating to, or having structure or a structure
2. (Building) of, relating to, or forming part of the structure of a building
3. (Geological Science) of or relating to the structure and deformation of rocks and other features of the earth's crust
4. (Biology) of or relating to the structure of organisms; morphological
5. (Chemistry) chem of, concerned with, caused by, or involving the arrangement of atoms in molecules
ˈstructurally adv
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struc•tur•al

(ˈstrʌk tʃər əl)

adj.
1. of or pertaining to structure, structures, or construction.
2. pertaining to organic structure; morphological.
3. of or pertaining to geological structure, as of rock.
4. pertaining to or showing the arrangement or mode of attachment of the atoms that constitute a molecule of a substance.
5. resulting from the existing political or economic structure: structural unemployment.
6. pertaining to or based on the assumption that the elements of a field of study are arranged in a systematic manner.
[1825–35]
struc′tur•al•ly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.structural - relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society"
2.structural - relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
3.structural - 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"
functional - designed for or capable of a particular function or use; "a style of writing in which every word is functional"; "functional architecture"
4.structural - concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
constructive - constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
5.structural - 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"
geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
6.structural - relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences"
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structural

adjective constructional, constitutional, configurational, formational structural reform of the tax system
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Translations
تَركيبي
stavební
strukturel
szerkezeti
byggingar-
yapısal

structural

[ˈstrʌktʃərəl] ADJestructural
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structural

[ˈstrʌktʃərəl] adj
[changes, reforms] → structurel(le)
(CONSTRUCTION) [repair, alteration, weakness, damage] → structurel(le)structural engineer ningénieur m calcul des structures
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structural

adj
strukturell, Struktur-; (of building) alterations, damage, requirementsbaulich; structural materialBaumaterial nt; structural partBauteil nt; the bridge suffered structural damagedie Struktur der Brücke wurde beschädigt
(= weight-bearing) wall, beamtragend
(fig, = essential) → essenziell, essentiell, notwendig

structural

:
structural analysis
n (Gram) → Strukturanalyse f
structural change
structural crisis
nStrukturkrise f
structural defect
structural engineer
nKonstrukteur(in) m(f)
structural engineering
nBautechnik f
structural fault
structural formula
n (Chem) → Strukturformel f

structural

:
structural steel
nKonstruktionsstahl m
structural survey
nBauzustandsgutachten nt
structural unemployment
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structural

[ˈstrʌktʃrl] adjstrutturale
structural formula (Chem) → formula di struttura
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structure

(ˈstraktʃə) noun
1. the way in which something is arranged or organized. A flower has quite a complicated structure; the structure of a human body.
2. a building, or something that is built or constructed. The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous structures in the world.
ˈstructural adjective
of structure. You must get permission before making structural alterations to your house.
ˈstructurally adverb
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struc·tur·al

a. estructural, rel. a la estructura de un órgano.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

structural

adj estructural
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As therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts being such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and disturbed.
Hitherto, in descriptively treating of the Sperm Whale, I have chiefly dwelt upon the marvels of his outer aspect; or separately and in detail upon some few interior structural features.
After all, we have to conjure up ideal poets for ourselves out of those who stand in or behind the range of volumes on our book-shelves; and our ideal Browning would have for his entire structural type those two volumes of Men and Women with Pippa Passes.
Some day the study of metabolism may progress so far as to enable us to accept structural changes proceeding from an intellectual or moral base.
And as soon as silence came, I found myself in front of this extraordinary mass of faces, thinking not of them, but of that long and unhappy chapter in our country's history which followed the one great structural mistake of the Fathers of the Republic; thinking of the one continuous great problem that generations of statesmen had wrangled over, and a million men fought about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years behind their fellows in every other part of the world--in England, in Australia, and in the Northern and Western States; I was thinking of this dark shadow that had oppressed every large-minded statesman from Jefferson to Lincoln.
He was cramped in every way by a niggardly commission, and was using lighter structural material than he thought proper.
The whole Water Front Federation, along with its allies in the structural trades, had backed up the teamsters, and all had smashed down ingloriously.
In such cases, he must generally be judged to have succeeded if he has established an apparent unity, say by mingling the same characters in the two actions, so that readers are not readily conscious of the lack of real structural unity.
Sir Harry hinted that a column, if possible, should be structural as well as decorative.
When we attempt to estimate the amount of structural difference between the domestic races of the same species, we are soon involved in doubt, from not knowing whether they have descended from one or several parent-species.
Whereupon the carpenters, structural ironworkers and teamsters walked out; and Billy, lacking train fare, spent the rest of the day in walking home.
But at a closer look we observe that the structural efficiency factor is [XI].sup.elem = 68 [%], even the maximum stress value is 90% (135 MPa) from allowable stress (150 MPa).

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