substructure
Example Sentences
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Workers continued scraping and drilling into the substructure of the monument as darkness began to fall.
From Washington Post
“All of our provisional ideas in psychology will presumably one day be based on an organic substructure,” Sigmund Freud wrote.
From Washington Post
It’s construction tradition that when a building’s steel substructure is nearing completion, the team signs the final beam before it’s hoisted and secured in place.
From Los Angeles Times
“A substructure or underlying foundation; especially, the basic economic, social, or military facilities and installations of a community, state, etc.” says Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary, from 1983.
From Seattle Times
Also in 1996 quark substructures were found at around three sigma.
From Scientific American
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