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construction n. [
building] the act of constructing something; "during the construction we had to take a detour"; "his hobby was the building of boats"
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construction n. [
grammatical construction, expression] 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"
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construction n. [
mental synthesis] the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
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construction n. [
structure] a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
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construction n. 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"
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