1. The act of constructing something
   "during the construction we had to take a detour";
   - building
    
2. The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
   "their main business is home construction";
   - building
    
3. A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
   "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons";
   - structure
    
4. The creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
   "The construction of his argument was logical and precise";
   - mental synthesis
    
5. Drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
   "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"
    
6. A group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
   "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"; "A noun phrase is an example of a grammatical construction";
   - grammatical construction, expression
    
7. An interpretation of a text or action
   "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct";
   - twist
    
8. The way something is built or put together
   "The bridge's construction was very sturdy"

Derived forms: constructions

Type of: artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], business, business enterprise, cerebration, commercial enterprise, constituent, creating from raw materials, grammatical constituent, intellection, interpretation, mathematical operation, mathematical process, mentation [technical], operation, thinking, thought, thought process

Antonym: misconstruction

Encyclopedia: Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union