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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Structural \Struc"tur*al\, adjective
1. Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to organit structure; as, a structural element or cell; the structural peculiarities of an animal or a plant.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
structural
adjective
1: relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society"
2: relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
3: affecting or involved in structure or construction; "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage"
4: concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
5: pertaining to geological structure; "geomorphological features of the Black Hills"; "morphological features of granite"; "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface" [syn: {geomorphologic}, {geomorphological}, {morphologic}, {morphological}]
6: relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences" [syn: {morphologic}, {morphological}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "structural": adjectival, adverbial, anatomic, architectonic, architectural, attributive, building, conjunctive, constructional, copulative, correct, descriptive, edificial, formal, functional, glossematic, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, housing, intransitive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, linking, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, nominal, organic, organismal, participial, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, psycholinguistic, semantic, substantive, substructural, superstructural, syntactic, tagmemic, tectonic, textural, transitive, verbal
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