structural unit

collocation in English

meaningsofstructuralandunit

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structural
adjective
uk
/ˈstrʌk.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the way in which parts of a system or object ...
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unit
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪt/us
/ˈjuː.nɪt/
a single thing or a separate part of ...
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(Definition ofstructuralandunitfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Instead of generating longer utterances as onestructuralunit, the children seem to have produced longer utterances by conjoining wellestablished shorter templates.
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During normal development both pronuclei are in close apposition in the egg centre, forming a complex that begins to move and wobble as astructuralunit.
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It still relies heavily on the distorted guitar power chord as the basicstructuralunitof pitch and most of the songs are in common (4/4) time.
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Foam molding, mostly used as upholstery cushions, became a basicstructuralunitfor furniture in the early 1960s.
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There may be more than onestructuralunitin the repeat unit.
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Act is the broadeststructuralunitof enacted stories.
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The resorcinarene is also the basicstructuralunitfor other molecular recognition scaffolds.
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Senate members are elected separately from the students and the academic personnel in proportion to their number at each basicstructuralunit.
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The enzyme consists of two duplicated catalytic units and onestructuralunitencoded on a single gene, representing a novel three-unit architecture.
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In the collaboration implemented company's management model is able to increase efficiency in the management of organizational /structuralunitwithout their conversion.
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An operon is here conceived as astructuralunitencompassing all genes and regulatory elements.
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The reactants undergo a homologation when the number of a repeatedstructuralunitin the molecules is increased.
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This is typically achieved first by identifying individual regions or structural units within each sequence and then assigning a function to eachstructuralunit.
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The massif is a smallerstructuralunitof the crust than a tectonic plate and is considered the fourth largest driving force in geomorphology.
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The basicstructuralunitis the tension-resolution system.
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The "pulvinone"structuralunitis found in a number of natural products.
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The bass line contributes to the crescendo through expansion of its structural units.
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However, a simple restoration of structural units is worthwhile for determining approximate minimum amounts of upper crustal shortening and original palaeogeographic positions.
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Also, functional meaning in many instances rests on structural units larger than the descriptive elements proposed by researchers of mixed languages.
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