adj
Meaning 1
Of, relating to, or having structure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
structural
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adj
Meaning 2
Involving the mechanics of construction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
Structural steel, used in construction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 4
relating to or having or characterized by structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- structural engineer
- structural errors
- structural simplicity
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adjective
Meaning 5
relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- structural unemployment in a technological society
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adjective
Meaning 6
relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- morphological differences
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: morphologic, morphological
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
pertaining to geological structure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- geomorphological features of the Black Hills
- morphological features of granite
- structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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adjective satellite
Meaning 9
affecting or involved in structure or construction
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements
- structural damage
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Synonyms: none provided
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History
Etymology
From structure + -al, 19th century.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: կառուցվածքային (kaṙucʻvackʻayin) — of, relating to, or having structure
- Belarusian: структу́рны (struktúrny) — of, relating to, or having structure
- Bulgarian: структурен (strukturen) — of, relating to, or having structure
- Catalan: estructural — of, relating to, or having structure
- Dutch: structureel — of, relating to, or having structure
- Finnish: rakenteellinen — of, relating to, or having structure
- Finnish: strukturaalinen — of, relating to, or having structure
- French: structurel — of, relating to, or having structure
- French: structural — of, relating to, or having structure
- German: konstruktiv — of, relating to, or having structure
- Greek: δομικός (domikós) — of, relating to, or having structure
- Indonesian: struktural — of, relating to, or having structure
- Irish: imchruthach — of, relating to, or having structure
- Italian: strutturale — of, relating to, or having structure
- Malay: struktur — of, relating to, or having structure
- Malay: struktural — of, relating to, or having structure
- Norman: structuthel — of, relating to, or having structure
- Polish: strukturalny — of, relating to, or having structure
- Portuguese: estrutural — of, relating to, or having structure
- Romanian: structural — of, relating to, or having structure
- Russian: структу́рный (struktúrnyj) — of, relating to, or having structure
- Spanish: estructural — of, relating to, or having structure
- Swedish: strukturell — of, relating to, or having structure
- Swedish: struktur- — of, relating to, or having structure
- Tagalog: yariin — of, relating to, or having structure
- Ukrainian: структу́рний (struktúrnyj) — of, relating to, or having structure
- Welsh: strwythurol — of, relating to, or having structure
- Bulgarian: строителен (stroitelen) — used in building
- German: baulich — used in building
- Greek: κατασκευαστικός (kataskevastikós) — used in building
- Polish: budowlany — used in building
- Russian: строи́тельный (stroítelʹnyj) — used in building
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