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How to pronounce substructure in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure
Type of support
Has types mat, raft, raft foundation, bed
Type Words
Synonyms infrastructure
Type of structure

Examples of substructure

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Crappie group, and often a brush pile or other substructure will supply a limit.
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Plans call for removing all the asphalt and improving a troublesome substructure.
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The crypt, below the main altar, shows the substructure of the 9th century church.
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It can be useful for constructing an elementary substructure of a large structure.
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These were incorporated into the preexisting substructure as it expanded eastward.
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The substructure consisting of a nucleobase plus sugar is termed a nucleoside.
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Especially if the roots have been constricted by substructure concrete for roadbeds.
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The topiary on steel substructure is covered with flowers that change with the season.
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Those images confirmed the presence of a faint substructure in the halo of the galaxy.
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More examples
  • Infrastructure: the basic structure or features of a system or organization
  • Foundation: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"
  • In mathematical logic, an (induced) substructure or (induced) subalgebra is a structure whose domain is a subset of that of a bigger structure, and whose functions and relations are the traces of the functions and relations of the bigger structure. ...
  • The supporting part of a structure (either physical or organizational; the foundation); underbuilding; The earth or gravel that railway sleepers are embedded in
  • (Substructures) are the girders, slab, barrier, and railing attached to the substructure. Substructures do not include endwalls, wingwalls, barrier and railing attached to the wingwalls, and cantilever barriers and railings unless supported by the superstructure. ...
  • The parts of a suspension bridge that are below water or land; the piers, or tower foundations, and anchorages.
  • All of the structure below the bearings of simple and continuous spans, skewbacks of arches, and tops of footings of rigid frames, together with the backwalls, wingwalls, and wing protection railings. (3)
  • The portion of the bridge that is below the beam and/or deck elements. It typically includes piers, abutments, and walls.
  • The part of a bridge that supports the superstructure and carries all the applied lateral and vertical loads; includes caps, sills, piles, and posts, each comprising elements known as abutments and piers.