STRUCTURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does structural mean? 

• STRUCTURAL (adjective)
  The adjective STRUCTURAL has 6 senses:

1. relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure

2. relating to or having or characterized by structure

3. affecting or involved in structure or construction

4. concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study

5. pertaining to geological structure

6. relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals

  Familiarity information: STRUCTURAL used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRUCTURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

structural unemployment in a technological society

Pertainym:

structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or having or characterized by structure

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

structural simplicity

Pertainym:

structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Affecting or involved in structure or construction

Context example:

structural damage

Similar:

functional (designed for or capable of a particular function or use)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study

Similar:

constructive (constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Pertaining to geological structure

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

geomorphologic; geomorphological; morphologic; morphological; structural

Context example:

structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

morphologic; morphological; structural

Context example:

morphological differences

 Context examples 

A structural device designed to facilitate the attachment of one object to another.

(Mount Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Furthermore, some of these studies in people have revealed structural and functional problems in the same brain region as the new mouse study.

(Study in mice identifies type of brain cell involved in stuttering, National Institutes of Health)

The findings suggest that, rather than target proteins triggering structural changes in Env upon binding, transient shifts in Env may instead enable it to bind target proteins.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

The main structural component of the LIVER.

(Murine Hepatocytes, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Microfilaments physically associate with microtubules to play a structural role in cytoskeleton integrity.

(Microfilament Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes caveolin-1 protein, is involved in the regulation of both the structural and functional status of caveolae.

(CAV1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The genetic or structural type for the constant region of an antibody.

(Antibody Isotype, NCI Thesaurus)

One of three structural motifs observed in DNA binding domains of zinc proteins.

(C2H2 Zinc Finger, NCI Thesaurus)

Motifs in DNA- and RNA-binding proteins whose amino acids are folded into a single structural unit around a zinc atom.

(C2H2 Zinc Finger, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This allele, which encodes nuclear receptor corepressor 2 protein, plays a role in both chromatin structural alteration and transcriptional regulation.

(NCOR2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)