"structural" meaning in English

See structural in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: structural [positive], [comparative], [superlative]
Etymology: structure + -al Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|structure|al}} structure + -al Head templates: {{adj}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Structural changes, problems, damage, etc. are related to the structure of something.
    Sense id: simple-structural-en-adj-Qg62XcEu
  2. A structural equation model is a statistical method that uses equations to understand how different things are related to each other, include both things we can measure and things we cannot directly see.
    Sense id: simple-structural-en-adj-grS-b3VS
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -al
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