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STRUCTURAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
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Similar:
constructive (constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Affecting or involved in structure or construction
Example:
structural damage
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Similar:
functional (designed for or capable of a particular function or use)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or having or characterized by structure
Example:
structural simplicity
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
Example:
structural unemployment in a technological society
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
Example:
morphological differences
Synonyms:
morphologic; morphological; structural
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Pertaining to geological structure
Example:
structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface
Synonyms:
geomorphologic; geomorphological; morphologic; morphological; structural
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
Context examples:
Both experimental vaccines, called VRC5283 and VRC5288, were engineered to prompt cells to produce the Zika virus structural proteins premembrane (prM) and envelope (E).
(DNA vaccines protect monkeys against Zika virus, NIH)
An enclosed structural device designed for heating an object.
(Oven Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
This made it easier to identify structural features of the genomes and the genes residing on them.
(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Nucleosome core particle, linker DNA and histone H1 comprise one structural unit of chromatin, nucleosome.
(Nucleosome Core Particle, NCI Thesaurus)
NOVA proteins form structural complexes with other proteins.
(NOVA Family, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a structural role in the basement membrane.
(NID2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
The atomic positions are accurately defined and fine details in the electron density become visible, which reveal small but significant structural changes.
(Atomic Resolution X-Ray Crystallography, NCI Thesaurus)
Due to the structural similarity to adenosine, caffeine binds to and blocks adenosine receptors, thereby preventing the inhibitory effects of adenosine on nerve cells.
(Caffeine, NCI Thesaurus)
Damage inflicted on any part of cardiovascular system as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
(Cardiovascular Injury, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
An orally active, synthetic structural analogue of N-acetylglutamate (NAG) and carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 (CPS 1) activator, with ammonia lowering activity.
(Carglumic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
