structural

Of, relating to, or having structure.

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or having structure.
    • 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...
    • These structural differences, the authors suggest, support previous reports of differences in personality: liberals tend to be better at managing conflicting information, while conservatives are though to be better at...
  2. Involving the mechanics of construction.

Origin

From structure + -al, 19th century.

Forms

more structural most structural

Derived

aerostructural antistructural biostructural cytostructural echostructural extrastructural geostructural heterostructural histostructural hyperstructural interstructural intrastructural isostructural lithostructural macrostructural magnetostructural mechanostructural metastructural microstructural morphostructural multistructural nanostructural neostructural neurostructural

Noun

  1. Structural steel, used in construction.
    • 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,...

Forms

structurals