STRUCTURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does structured mean? 

• STRUCTURED (adjective)
  The adjective STRUCTURED has 2 senses:

1. having definite and highly organized structure

2. resembling a living organism in organization or development

  Familiarity information: STRUCTURED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRUCTURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having definite and highly organized structure

Context example:

a structured environment

Also:

organized (formed into a structured or coherent whole, particularly on a large scale)

Antonym:

unstructured (lacking definite structure or organization)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resembling a living organism in organization or development

Synonyms:

integrated; structured

Context example:

society as an integrated whole

Similar:

organic (being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms)

 Context examples 

NOTE(S): This is HL7 structured vocabulary and is part of a controlled vocabulary set.

(Document Version Relationship Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

GO provides three structured networks of defined terms, molecular function, biological process, and cellular component, to describe gene product attributes.

(Gene Ontology, NCI Thesaurus)

This instrument contains 14 questions or types of symptoms associated with anxiety such as fear, mood, insomnia, and somatic symptoms, which is completed during a semi-structured interview.

(Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

This instrument contains 17 questions or types of symptoms associated with depression such as anxiety, mood, insomnia, and somatic symptoms experienced within the past week and is completed during a semi-structured interview.

(Hamilton Depression Rating Scale 17 Item Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A liquid parenteral pharmaceutical dosage form structured as a multilamellar composition of concentric phospholipid spheres that encapsulate the drug (drug delivery systems) separated by layers of water.

(Injectable Liposomal Suspension Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This version consists of 18 questions or types of psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, hallucinations, motor skills, or other unusual behaviors and is completed during a semi-structured interview.

(Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale A Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A relatively nearby planetary system is structured remarkably like what ours probably looked like when it was young, the U.S. space agency NASA confirms.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

Badyaev and co-authors showed that the way biochemical processes are structured in birds holds the key to understanding how species gain and lose their reliance on others in their communities.

(Colorful bird feathers offer evolutionary clues, National Science Foundation)

During sleep, participants were exposed to fast flows of pure sounds, either randomly organized or structured in such a way that the auditory stream could be statistically grouped into sets of 3 elements.

(Learning While Sleeping?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The goal of the project is to build a vocabulary server accessed through a well-structured application programming interface (API) capable of accessing and distributing vocabularies as commodity resources.

(LexBIG, NCI Thesaurus)