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structural

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1. structural - Noun

2. structural - Adjective

3. structural - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.

Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. Edith Wharton

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Herbert Read

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in mathematical terms. Sometimes the logical structure of a conflict situation admits rational decisions; sometimes it does not. Anatol Rapoport

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro. Nigel Farage

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history. Stephen Jay Gould

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