structure

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English

Etymology

From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə(ɹ)/, [ˈstɹɐk(t)ʃə(ɹ)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]

Noun

structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)

1. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

   Synonym: formation
2. The underlying shape of a solid.

   Synonym: formation

3. The overall form or organization of something.

   Synonyms: makeup, configuration; see also Thesaurus:composition
4. A set of rules defining behaviour.

5. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

6. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish

7. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.

8. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

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Translations

Verb

structure (third-person singular simple present structures, present participle structuring, simple past and past participle structured)

1. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• infrastructure
• macrostructure
• microstructure
• restructure
• structural
• structuralism
• structuralist
• structured
• substructure
• superstructure
• unstructured

Further reading

• structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin structūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁyk.tyʁ/
• Rhymes: -yʁ
• Homophone: structures

Noun

structure f (plural structures)

1. structure

   Synonyms: agencement, disposition, ordre, organisation

   Antonyms: anarchie, chaos

   Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobile structure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)

Derived terms

• infrastructure
• structural
• structuralisme
• structuraliste
• structurant
• structuration
• structurer
  • déstructurer
  • restructurer
• structuration
• structure de données
• structurel
• structurellement
• substructure
• superstructure

Further reading

• “structure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

strūctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of strūctūrus