What is structure?
Etymology
< French structure < Latin structura (“‘a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure’”) < struere, pp. structus (“‘pile up, arrange, assemble, build’”).
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts;
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts;
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations;
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing;
- give a structure to;
- social organization: the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships;
Structure is a fundamental and sometimes intangible notion covering the recognition, observation, nature, and stability of patterns and relationships of entities.
A structure defines what a system is made of. It is a configuration of items. It is a collection of inter-related components or services. The structure may be a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships) or a network featuring many-to-many relationships.
Is our mind a structure used to develop other structures or is it something more than just structure?
