structure

Definitions

General English

  • noun a

    building

    or

    something

    else

    that

    is built

General Science

  • noun a whole or a system that is made of different parts
  • noun the different parts that make up a whole, or the

    arrangement

    of parts
  • verb to organise or

    arrange

    something in a

    systematic

    way

Commerce

  • verb to arrange in a specific way

Computing

  • verb to

    organise

    or to arrange in a certain way

Construction

  • A combination of units fabricated and interconnected in accordance with a design and intended to support vertical and

    horizontal

    loads.

Electronics

  • The manner in which something consisting of multiple parts or components is put together or organized. Examples include

    data

    structures and network structures.

Information & Library Science

  • noun an underlying plan which gives form to a system or

    activity

  • verb to organise or

    construct

    something according to an

    efficient

    or logical system

Medical

  • noun the way in which an organ or muscle is formed

Real Estate

  • noun a

    building

    , bridge, framework or other large object that has been put together from many different parts

Wine

  • the way in which a wine is built up from different elements such as acid level, tannin, alcohol, fruitiness and body. All wines have structure, but it is not always well-built, so the term is usually used with another descriptor, as in ‘good structure’.

Origin & History of “structure”

Structure comes via Old French structure

from

Latin structūra, a

noun

derived from the

past

participle

of struere ‘build’.

other

English

words from the

same

source are construct, construe,

destroy

, destruction, instruct, and obstruct (17th c.).
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