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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. 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"
     
  3. Concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
     
  4. Relating to, having or characterized by structure
    "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
     
  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