structural

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   affecting or involved in structure or construction

   the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters

2. 2
   adj

   relating to or having or characterized by structure

   structural engineer

3. 3
   adj

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

   structural unemployment in a technological society

4. 4
   adj

   Of, relating to, or having structure.

   Class 1. consists of nervous diseases, such as depend on the nervous and muscular systems; the second, of sanguine diseases, such as depend on the sanguiferous system; the third, of secretory diseases, or such as are connected with the state of the secretions; and the fourth, of structural diseases, or those that are connected with the nutritive powers.

5. 5
   noun

   Structural steel, used in construction.

   Freight differentials often increased the spread in favor of the imported structurals. Purchasers repeatedly emphasized that their purchases of imported structurals were split among a number of sources, including Spain, France, West Germany, […]

6. 6
   adj

   concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study

7. 7
   adj

   relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals

8. 8
   adj

   pertaining to geological structure

Etymology

From structure + -al, 19th century.