plural of periodic structure

plural of dramatic structure

plural of metrical structure

Loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material in a structure is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations.

(evolutionary theory) A structure in an organism that has lost all or most of its original function in the course of evolution, such as human appendixes.

(grammar) A sentence whose main clause appears at the end, after other, especially dependent, clauses. / (physics) A structure made of bays coupled through one or more coordinates.

(economics) A type of unemployment explained by a mismatch between the requirements of the employers and the properties (such as skills, age, gender or location) of the unemployed.

(chemistry) Any of various diagrammatic representations of the structure of a molecule that shows how its atoms are linked to each other, with what type of bonds, and the presence of any charges

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

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