construction
- noun
- /kənˈstrʌkʃən/
- Specialized
- In geometry class, the teacher demonstrated how to create a precise construction using only a compass and a straightedge.
- the construction in Figure
In a metaverse, even all metaverses are built on right triangle constructions.
- In a metaverse, even all metaverses are built on right triangle constructions.
- Or it just seems like by construction, these things are supposed to not bleed out anything.
- Because in in high school geometry, all we did was play around with, you know, protractors and compasses and do constructions.
- This was, so to speak, the rules of the game that for them a construction meant that you can draw a circle with a given centre and the given radius.
- I think the time wave, it was a beautiful mathematical construction of the around the E Ching.
Examples
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We begin the description of the cut-based attack with the construction of the subgraph H.
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So if we have a proper construction, the hope is that we can draw a square here.
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This is a proof method where you actually do some type of construction within the proof.
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This is a proof by contradiction showing that our construction must be wrong.
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There is a need for multipredator-multiprey models, but their construction may not be an easy task.
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The Logan et al. Scale and Smith et al. Scale ask for appropriate construction of the visual analysis graph.
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Although such conclusions are heartening, our understanding of test construction has also improved in recent years.
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Its sections indicate the directions of this research: definitions and demonstrations, construction, function, history, design, and intention.
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Avoiding decoherence of this sort is what makes the construction of quantum computers a tremendous technological challenge.
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Intermediate summarization S requires the construction of a set of descriptive statistics for each database attribute.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
A plan or drawing that shows how something will look and work
Compounds
A person who builds and fixes buildings, roads and other large structures at work sites
- Specialized
A group of words in a sentence that work together to show one idea
How Complex
- Informal
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Construction comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and struere 'to pile up or build'. Think of a math or geometry construction as 'building' a figure step by step, putting lines and points together to meet the rules of the problem.