construct

Something constructed from parts.

Noun

Something constructed from parts.
- The artwork was a construct of wire and tubes.
- Loops and conditional statements are constructs in computer programming.
A concept or model.
- Bohr's theoretical construct of the atom was soon superseded by quantum mechanics.
A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or tissue.

Borrowed from Latin cōnstrūctus, from cōnstruō (“to heap together”), from com- (“together”) + struō (“to heap up, pile”). Doublet of construe.

To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
- We constructed the radio from spares.
- A wall constructed of random stones.
- The Carnarvonshire Railway was incorporated by an Act of July 29, 1862, with powers to construct a standard-gauge line from the Bangor & Carnarvon at Caernarvon [1958 spelling] to Portmadoc, a distance of 27¾ miles, but...
To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
- A sentence may be constructed with a subject, verb and object.
- The Vietnam War films are forms of memory that function to provide collective rememberings, to construct history, and to subsume within them the experience of the veterans. - 1997, Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories:
To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric tools and techniques.
- Construct a circle that touches each vertex of the given triangle.
- The arc of a circle may be very little, but, given that, it is possible to construct the entire figure. - 1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados: