[
US
/ˈsupɝˌstɹəktʃɝ/
]
[ UK /sˈuːpəstɹˌʌktʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːpəstɹˌʌktʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
- structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck
How To Use superstructure In A Sentence
- Set beneath the canopy of a large ilex, Campo Baeza's building is composed of two parts: an ethereal superstructure and a horizontal concrete platform.
- The main superstructure frame is formed from reinforced concrete with post-tensioned, ribbed slab floors.
- Just as the new convert to Islam sees the work of God in all things, the Marxist neophyte is tempted to understand all human activity through the lens of the base/superstructure model.
- There might be an additional superstructure or deckhouse at the stern.
- The timberwork of the roof superstructure to be built in is to be joined. 3. Building-in of Roof Superstructures
- The 4,600t ship will have five decks and two superstructures.
- Due to the size, weight and cost of large buildings, testing the substructure's ability to carry the superstructure, becomes imperative.
- Originally standing higher than the rest of the superstructure, this has now collapsed into the fuel bunkers below.
- The superstructure is of brick, the walls being thoroughly grouted and strongly constructed.
- Despite our lack of information about the superstructures of the nearby tombs (lining the Via Labicana and adjacent to Eurysaces' monument), we know that Eurysaces' tomb had to contend with at least one of his neighbors.