Noun

(en noun)

A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

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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.

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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)

a part, or component of a whole

* Tyndall

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.

The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.

* Sir M. Hale

Their first composure and origination require a higher and nobler constituent than chance.

A resident of a place represented by an elected official.

* Macaulay

To appeal from the representatives to the constituents .

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(legal) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.

(Burrill)

(grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

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Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase'' constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive 's inflection in English without saying that it's a ''Noun Phrase inflection.