Noun

(en noun)

A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

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The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.

The underlying shape of a solid.

He studied the structure of her face.

The overall form or organization of something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author= , title=Pixels or Perish , volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= citation , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure , astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}

The structure of a sentence.

The structure of the society was still a mystery.

A set of rules defining behaviour.

For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.

(computing)  Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

This structure contains both date and timezone information.

(fishing, uncountable)  Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish

There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.

A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.

The South African leader went off to consult with the structures .

(logic)  A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

Noun

(en noun)

(military) A unit of armed troops under the command of an officer, and consisting of several smaller units; now specifically, usually composed of two or more battalions.

* 1901 , (Rudyard Kipling), Kim , III:

It was an old, withered man, who had served the Government in the days of the Mutiny as a native officer in a newly raised cavalry regiment .

* 2005 , Nicholas Watt & Michael White, The Guardian , 28 April 2005:

As the prime minister insisted that he had "never told a lie" in his life, the Tory leader attacked him for ordering Scottish troops into battle with no warning that their regiments would be disbanded.

* 1576 , (Abraham Fleming), translating Cicero, A Panoplie of Epistles , XXXIII:

What place is there in all the world, not subiect to the regiment and power of this citie?

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.8:

Then loyall love had royall regiment , / And each unto his lust did make a lawe, / From all forbidden things his liking to withdraw.

* 1832 , , The Province of Jurisprudence Determined , VI:

And how is it possible to distinguish precisely […] the powers of ecclesiastical regiment' which none but the church should wield from the powers of ecclesiastical '''regiment (on the ''jus circa sacra ) which secular and profane governments may handle without sin?

(obsolete) The state or office of a ruler; rulership.

(obsolete) Influence or control exercised by someone or something (especially a planet).

(obsolete) A place under a particular rule; a kingdom or domain.

(Spenser)

(obsolete, medicine) A regimen.