“The huge concrete structure loomed large in the heart of the city.”
“The structure of the country's economy has evolved from being based on agriculture to one that now revolves around the service sector.”
structuralism
A theory of sociology that views elements of society as part of a cohesive, self-supporting structure.
(biology) A school of biological thought that deals with the law-like behaviour of the structure of organisms and how it can change, emphasising that organisms are wholes, and therefore that change in one part must necessarily take into account the inter-connected nature of the entire organism.
(linguistics) The theory that a humanlanguage is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence.
(psychology) A school of thought that focuses on exploring the individual elements of consciousness, how they are organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlate with physical events.
(mathematics) In the philosophy of mathematics, a theory that holds that mathematical theories describe structures, and that mathematical objects are exhaustively defined by their place in such structures.
“As a result, practitioners began to develop various structurings to apply the concepts of leveraging without violating the NMTC rules.”
“Given the plethora of the stock acquisitions in the 1990s and subsequent corporate re structurings and reorganizations, the review could be anything but innocuous.”
“Some structurals elements are strengthened with unidirectional carbon tissue.”
“The integrated processing starts with the ore which is processed through several intermediate products to the finished fuel assemblies and several core structurals.”
“Our product range includes structurals, plates, HR coils, floor plates, light rails, pipe and tubing which are imported from worldwide sources and sold to North American accounts.”
