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  • noun Plural form of substructure.

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Examples

  • Here and there rose villages or farms, the lines of whose sloping, earth-gray walls recalled the substructures of antique temples.

    The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt Th��ophile Gautier 1841

  • The baseball, spinning between mass and momentum, hurtled through a space implied by the convergence of multiple dimensions that intertwine in the substructures of the visible but which are otherwise unrelated and brought it to a momentary resolution that was almost perceptible when the film was slowed down and the line of the throw and spinning of the ball became continua that stretched across the frame.

    A Short Film About Baseball stephen hastings-king 2011

  • It might inspire minor modifications within one of the many substructures, but that is all.

    Archive 2010-01-01 EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • BiFab will supply at least 50 jacket substructures a year to support Scottish & Southern's offshore wind developments.

    The Wind Gap 2010

  • In the main part of the amazing multi-functionality of individual substructures of the bacterial motor, and the fact-based model of evolution are critically analyzed by Matzke.

    Flagellum evolution -- how's your German? - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The company, known as BiFab, specializes in making components for the offshore oil and gas industry and is now one of the main companies making the jackets, or substructures, that anchor wind turbines to the sea bed.

    The Wind Gap 2010

  • It might inspire minor modifications within one of the many substructures, but that is all.

    Prismatic glass ceilings EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • BiFab BiFab substructures for offshore wind turbines being loaded for transport on the coast of Scotland.

    The Wind Gap 2010

  • We could follow this further: the DSI-bump assembly consists of certain metal-alloy substructures.

    The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

  • To present a theory is to specify a family of structures, its models; and secondly, to specify certain parts of those models (the empirical substructures) as candidates for the direct representation of observable phenomena.

    Beyond the Voice arlene ang 2009

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