Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to construction, in any sense of that word; specifically, deduced from construction or interpretation.
- Controlled by the original and still prevailing surface attitude and structure of the land: said of watercourses. See consequent and attitude. Formed by or resulting from consequent drainage: said of land-forms: as, a constructional divide or valley.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or obtained by construction.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or deduced from, construction or interpretation.
Examples
“If the drawing is inaccurate overall shape is important, not details, the dysfunction is called constructional dyspraxia.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“In The Logical Structure of the World, Rudolph Carnap attempts to show how a "constructional system" can be built the purpose of which is "to order the objects of all sciences into a system according to their reducibility to one another.”
“I think Niffenegger uses time travel with considerably greater panache than many writers, and I especially liked the way she deals with the immediate difficulties of her male character's plunges through time (though not the 'scientific' explanation for them), but the constructional problem remains.”
“Please Note: For constructional reasons I am unable to post anything new this week.”
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“By imputing white supremacist ideas to usually a few misled as well as aroused individuals, a real POWER of constructional systemic as well as ideological Whiteness is done invisible as well as a dominant energy is serve strengthened.”
“Systemic, constructional as well as ideological constructions of Whiteness which were central in to attempted attempted murder of Marcelo Lucero.”
“Mind you, I have no idea what the constructional procedures for removing the President in Honduras might be, but this doesnt sound too bad to me.”
“In my comment above I mentioned "constructional procedure.”
“The classical authorities tell us that he was only “doing a stunt”, but I prefer to think of him as the man who brought to light a serious constructional defect in the flying-machines of his day.”
“Rationalizing the tax structure and maybe next year starting on the road to a constructional convention - also major.”
The Huffington Post: David Thielen: 2010 Legislative session wrap-up
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