construction

n 1: the act of constructing or building something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats" syn building

2: the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings; "their main business is home construction"; "workers in the building trades" syn building

3: a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" syn structure

4: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner" syn grammatical construction, expression ant misconstruction

5: the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought syn mental synthesis

6: an interpretation of a text or action; "they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct" syn twist

7: drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem; "the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"

Source: WordNet. Princeton University

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