noun

1. manner of building, constructing, or organizing
2. something built or constructed, as a building or dam
3. the arrangement or interrelation of all the parts of a whole; manner of organization or construction the structure of the atom, the structure of society
4. something composed of interrelated parts forming an organism or an organization

Etymology: ME < L structura < structus, pp. of struere, to heap together, arrange: see strew

transitive verb structured -·tured, structuring -·tur·ing