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US
/ˈstɹəktʃɝəɫ/
]
[ UK /stɹˈʌktʃəɹəl/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈʌktʃəɹəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
morphological differences -
relating to or having or characterized by structure
structural simplicity
structural errors
structural engineer -
affecting or involved in structure or construction
structural damage
the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements -
pertaining to geological structure
structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface
geomorphological features of the Black Hills
morphological features of granite - concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
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relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
structural unemployment in a technological society
How To Use structural In A Sentence
- Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
- ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
- For a diagnosis of brain stem death irremediable structural brain damage should be present.
- Impacts may create undetectable cracks that, because of the continuous loads, could result in structural damage.
- However, the emphasis on structural constraints and formal controls provides only a partial view.
- This so-called ‘prop it’ is a dummy subject, serving merely to fill a structural need in English for a subject in a sentence.
- The established idea that granitoid magmas ascend through the continental crust as diapirs is being increasingly questioned by igneous and structural geologists.
- Furthermore, functional and structural divergence might, in some cases, precede rather than follow gene duplication.
- These structural problems will act as a major constraint on any potential recovery in the housing market.
- It is the structural nature of centre-periphery relations that explains the nature of international politics and economics.
