Structure
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"But uh...shouldn't there be some kind of [[structure]]?" --"[[Ciquri]]" by [[Material (band)|Material]] | "But uh...shouldn't there be some kind of [[structure]]?" --"[[Ciquri]]" by [[Material (band)|Material]] | ||
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[[Image:Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline (Samuel H. Gottscho).jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Trylon and Perisphere]]]] | [[Image:Trylon, Perisphere and Helicline (Samuel H. Gottscho).jpg|thumb|200px|''[[Trylon and Perisphere]]]] |
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Structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature, and stability of patterns and relationships of entities. From a child's verbal description of a snowflake, to the detailed scientific analysis of the properties of botany, the concept of structure is an essential foundation of nearly every mode of inquiry and discovery in science, philosophy, and art.
A structure defines what a system is made of. It is a configuration of items. It is a collection of inter-related components or services. The structure may be a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships) or a network featuring many-to-many relationships.
Etymology
From French structure, from Latin structura (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
- to place one thing on top of another, to pile up, join together
- I compose, construct, build
- I ready, prepare, devise, contrive
- I place, arrange
- to heap up, load with
Also found in infrastructure, obstruction, destruction, instruct, construct
See also
- Structuralism
- Structuralist film theory
- Structuring absence
- Building
- Nonbuilding structure
- Social structure
- The Tyranny of Structurelessness
- Structures built by animals