structural

English

Etymology

19th century; structure +‎ -al

Adjective

structural (not comparable)

1. Of, relating to, or having structure.
   • 1814, Thomas Young, “An Introduction to Medical Literature, including a System of practical Nosology”, in The Monthly Review, page 185:

     Class 1. consists of nervous diseases, such as depend on the nervous and muscular systems; the second, of sanguine diseases, such as depend on the sanguiferous system; the third, of secretory diseases, or such as are connected with the state of the secretions; and the fourth, of structural diseases, or those that are connected with the nutritive powers.

2. Involving the mechanics of construction.
3. That is lasting. economics

Derived terms

• aerostructural
• antistructural
• cytostructural
• geostructural
• heterostructural
• hyperstructural
• isostructural
• lithostructural
• macrostructural
• magnetostructural
• metastructural
• microstructural
• nanostructural
• neostructural
• neurostructural
• nonstructural
• poststructural
• sociostructural
• stereostructural
• structural anthropology
• structural biology
• structural deficit
• structural failure
• structural formula
• structural integrity
• structuralise
• structuralism
• structural isomer
• structural isomerism
• structuralist
• structuralistic
• structurality
• structuralization
• structuralize
• structurally
• structural pattern
• structural polysaccharide
• structural research
• structural unemployment
• technostructural
• unistructural

 

Translations

of, relating to, or having structure

• Armenian: կառուցվածքային (hy) (kaṙucʿvackʿayin)
• Belarusian: структу́рны (struktúrny)
• Bulgarian: структурен (bg) (strukturen)
• Catalan: estructural (ca)
• Dutch: structureel (nl)
• Finnish: rakenteellinen (fi), strukturaalinen
• French: structurel (fr) m, structural (fr) m
• German: konstruktiv (de)
• Greek: δομικός (el) (domikós)
• Irish: imchruthach
• Italian: strutturale (it)
• Malay: struktur, struktural
• Norman: structuthel (Jersey)
• Polish: strukturalny (pl)
• Portuguese: estrutural (pt)
• Romanian: structural (ro) m or n
• Russian: структу́рный (ru) (struktúrnyj)
• Spanish: estructural (es)
• Swedish: strukturell (sv), struktur- (sv)
• Tagalog: yariin
• Ukrainian: структу́рний (struktúrnyj)
• Welsh: strwythurol (cy)

used in building

• Bulgarian: строителен (stroitelen)
• German: baulich (de)
• Greek: κατασκευαστικός (el) (kataskevastikós)
• Polish: budowlany (pl)
• Russian: строи́тельный (ru) (stroítelʹnyj)

Noun

structural (plural structurals)

1. Structural steel, used in construction.
   • 1982, United States International Trade Commission, Certain carbon steel products from Spain (page A-49)

     Freight differentials often increased the spread in favor of the imported structurals. Purchasers repeatedly emphasized that their purchases of imported structurals were split among a number of sources, including Spain, France, West Germany, […]

Further reading

• "structural" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 301.

French

Pronunciation

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Adjective

structural (feminine structurale, masculine plural structuraux, feminine plural structurales)

1. structural

Further reading

• “structural”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French structural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌstruk.tuˈral/

Adjective

structural m or n (feminine singular structurală, masculine plural structurali, feminine and neuter plural structurale)

1. structural

Declension

Declension of structural

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	structural		structurală	structurali	structurali
	definite	structuralul		structurala	structuralii	structuralile
genitive/ dative	indefinite	structural		structurali	structurali	structurali
	definite	structuralului		structuralii	structuralilor	structuralilor

Related terms

• structură