(economics) The offering of loans by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to countries experiencing economic crisis, with the aim of adjusting their economic structure, improving international competitiveness, and restoring the balance of payments.

plural of structural disorder

(pathology) A medical condition that impairs normal functioning of bodily processes in which some part of the body can be seen to be abnormal.

plural of structural deficit

plural of structural anthropologist

Someone who studies structural anthropology.

(architecture) A field of research and analysis in architecture that uses studies and details from nature or other sources to produce or create a new structure. It is used in design and architecture to imitate structures and improve them giving them a certain amount of art feeling. Structural research can be also called structural art or structural design.

A doctrine that rejects structuralism’s claims to objectivity and emphasises the plurality of meaning.

(chemistry, biology) A branch of biochemistry or biophysics in which the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules, such as proteins, DNA, or RNA, are obtained using X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR).

(chemistry) A form of isomerism in which the same atoms are arranged in different orders, either having the same or different functional groups.