Definition of structure
- n. - The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings;
construction.
- n. - Manner of building; form; make; construction.
- n. - Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent
particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a
mineral; the structure of a sentence.
- n. - Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different
tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic
structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.
- n. - That which is built; a building; esp., a building of
some size or magnificence; an edifice.