What does structural mean?

Definitions for structural
ˈstrʌk tʃər əlstruc·tural

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. structuraladjective

    relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure

    "structural unemployment in a technological society"

  2. structuraladjective

    relating to or having or characterized by structure

    "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"

  3. structuraladjective

    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"

  4. structuraladjective

    concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study

  5. geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structuraladjective

    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"

  6. morphologic, morphological, structuraladjective

    relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals

    "morphological differences"

Wiktionary

  1. structuraladjective

    Of, relating to, or having structure

  2. structuraladjective

    Used in building.

  3. Etymology: 19th century;

Wikipedia

  1. structural

    A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a network featuring many-to-many links, or a lattice featuring connections between components that are neighbors in space.

ChatGPT

  1. structural

    Structural refers to relating to, forming, or affecting the structure or construction of something. It can be associated with the arrangement or system designed to support a particular part of something or the manner of its construction. For example, structural engineering is about the creation and design of buildings or bridges, ensuring they are strong and stable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Structuraladjective

    of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error

  2. Structuraladjective

    of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant

Editors Contribution

  1. structural

    Relating to a structure.

    The structural effect is easy as it supports each joint.


    Submitted by MaryC on June 21, 2020  

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'structural' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3551

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'structural' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4718

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'structural' in Adjectives Frequency: #479

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of structural in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of structural in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of structural in a Sentence

  1. Alexei Kudrin:

    If you look at the situation from the point of view of growth, we are in the eye of the storm, when we talk about structural reforms, it is not only about writing some document. We need political will, a team, and a president who shares all these opinions.

  2. Kevin Brady:

    While we want China to buy more U.S. goods ... it's even more important for us to hold China accountable to meeting high international standards on intellectual property rights, subsidization, overcapacity, and the other structural ways in which China distorts the global economy.

  3. Bernardo Bortolotti:

    They still have $6 trillion-plus to deploy but we have a structural break in the accumulation of assets, we are at a turning point ... Unless Asia can create an area of regional free trade to replace the intercontinental flows then the same issues that are emerging now in the Gulf could also emerge in Asia.

  4. John Kavulich:

    There is now additional pressure from within for structural changes to the ideological foundation of the country. Cuba must do more than reform the commercial and economic sectors of the country. It must aggressively redefine the revolution.

  5. Kamala Harris:

    This is not a coincidence. It is the effect of structural racism.

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