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Adjective: structural  strúk-chu-rul
  1. Relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
    "structural unemployment in a technological society"
     
  2. Relating to, having or characterized by structure
    "structural simplicity"; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"
     
  3. Affecting or involved in structure or construction
    "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters, not ornamental elements"; "structural damage"
     
  4. Concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
    "The structural analysis of the novel revealed its complex narrative patterns"
     
  5. (geology) pertaining to geological structure
    "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface";
    - geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, geomorphic
     
  6. Relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
    "structural differences";
    - morphologic, morphological

See also: constructive, functional

Encyclopedia: Structural