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construction

English

🔊 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”
🔊 the act of constructing something
“during the construction we had to take a detour”
🔊 the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
“their main business is home construction”
🔊 the creation of a construct
🔊 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”
🔊 an interpretation of a text or action
“they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct”
🔊 a thing constructed
“the structure consisted of a series of arches”