structural Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure
    • structural unemployment in a technological society
  2. adjective relating to or having or characterized by structure
    • structural engineer
    • structural errors
    • structural simplicity
  3. adjective satellite affecting or involved in structure or construction; not ornamental elements"
    • the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters
    • structural damage
  4. adjective satellite concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
  5. adjective pertaining to geological structure
    morphological; geomorphologic; geomorphological; morphologic.
    • geomorphological features of the Black Hills
    • morphological features of granite
    • structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface
  6. adjective relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
    morphological; morphologic.
    • morphological differences

WordNet

Struc"tur*al adjective
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
  2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant. a symbolic representation of the structure of one molecule of a chemical compound, showing the attachments of the atoms to each other; it may or may not depict the stereochemical relations of the bonds. Distinguished from empirical formula.

Webster 1913