structured
English
Etymology
Adjective
structured (comparative more structured, superlative most structured)
- Having structure; organized.
- 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137:
- Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.
- 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN[1]:
- Dr. Jessie Voigts, a homeschooler and founder of Wandering Educators, a global community of educators sharing travel experiences, said it doesn’t matter if this time is structured or unstructured, so long as the kids get outside.
Derived terms
- well-structured
Related terms
- structured analysis
- structured ASIC
- structured cabling
- structured content
- structured criticality
- structured data
- structured design
- structured finance
- structured interviewing
- structured packing
- structured product
- structured programming
- Structured Query Language
- structured sale
- structured settlement
- structured storage
- structured text
- structured wiring
Translations
having structure; organized
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Verb
structured
- simple past and past participle of structure
- He structured the loan with a twenty-year term.