structureとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹʌktʃə(ɹ)/, [ˈstɹɐktʃə(ɹ)]
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstɹʌktʃɚ/

名詞

structure (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 structures)

1. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

   Synonym: formation

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

   The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.

2. The underlying shape of a solid.

   Synonym: formation

   He studied the structure of her face.

3. The overall form or organization of something.

   Synonyms: makeup, configuration; see also Thesaurus:composition

   • 2012 March 1, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎^[2], volume 100, number 2, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

   The structure of a sentence.

   The structure of the society was still a mystery.

4. A set of rules defining behaviour.

   For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.

5. (computing)  Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

   This structure contains both date and timezone information.

6. (fishing, uncountable)  Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree または 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.

7. A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.

   The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.

8. (logic)  A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

派生語

• antistructure

動詞

structure (三人称単数 現在形 structures, 現在分詞 structuring, 過去形および過去分詞形 structured)

1. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

   I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.

   I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.

関連する語

• infrastructure
• macrostructure
• microstructure
• restructure
• structural
• structuralism
• structuralist
• structured
• substructure
• superstructure
• unstructured

Further reading

• structure on Wikipedia.