Structure /(?)/

Struc·ture

Structure

n.
  1. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [R.]
    His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent.
  2. Manner of building; form; make; construction.
    Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.
  3. Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.
    It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure.
  4. Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. (Biol.)
  5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
    There stands a structure of majestic frame.

Phrases & Compounds
Columnar structure
See under Columnar.