structure

Meanings

Noun

• A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
• The underlying shape of a solid.
• The overall form or organization of something.
• A set of rules defining behaviour.
• Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
• Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
• A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
• A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

Verb

• To give structure to; to arrange.

Origin

• From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra ("a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure"), from struere, past participle structus. Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.