Construction
Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form Physical object, objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Pr ...
is the process of producing buildings and other infrastructure.
Construction also may refer to:
* Additional physical/mechanical senses:
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Offshore construction
Offshore construction is the installation of structures and facilities in a marine environment, usually for the production and transmission of electricity, oil, gas and other resources. It is also called maritime engineering.
Construction a ...
, the installation of structures in marine environments
* Primarily abstract senses of creation or assembly:
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(A list of) algebraic constructions
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Compass and straightedge constructions in geometry
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Grammatical construction In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntactic string of words ranging from sentences over phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs.
Grammatical constructions form the primary unit of study in construction ...
, meaning-bearing relationship among words of an utterance
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''Construction'' (Cage), music by John Cage
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Construction (Egyptian coalition)
Construction is a movement created by Amr Al-Shobaki that will run in the 2015 Egyptian parliamentary election
Egyptian parliamentary elections to the House of Representatives were held in two phases, from 17 October to 2 December 2015. The el ...
, for political purposes
* Construction as synonym for "act of construing":
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Statutory construction in law
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Social construction
Social constructionism is a theory in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory which proposes that certain ideas about physical reality arise from collaborative consensus, instead of pure observation of said reality. The theory ...
, social factors in construing of language and other symbols
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Construals In social psychology, a construal is a way that people perceive, comprehend, and interpret their world, particularly the acts of others toward them.
Researchers and theorists within virtually every sub-discipline of psychology have acknowledged the ...
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''Building'' (Australian magazine), subsequently published under the title ''Construction''
See also
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On Construction
Priscianus Caesariensis (), commonly known as Priscian ( or ), was a Latin grammarian and the author of the ''Institutes of Grammar'', which was the standard textbook for the study of Latin during the Middle Ages. It also provided the raw materia ...
'' ( la, De Constructione), books XVII & XVIII of Priscian's ''Institutions of Grammar''
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Index of construction articles
This page is a list of construction topics.
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- Abrasive blasting
- AC power plugs and sockets
- Access mat
- Accrington brick
- Accropode
- Acid brick
- Acoustic plaster
- Active daylighting
- Adaptive reuse
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Construct (disambiguation)
Construct, Constructs or constructs may refer to:
* Construct (information technology), a collection of logic components forming an interactive agent or environment
** Language construct
* ''Construct'' (album), a 2013 album by Dark Tranquillity ...
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Constructionism (disambiguation) Constructionism may refer to
* Constructionism (learning theory), an educational philosophy developed by Seymour Papert
* Social constructionism, a theory of how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts
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Constructivism (disambiguation)
Constructivism may refer to:
Art and architecture
* Constructivism (art), an early 20th-century artistic movement that extols art as a practice for social purposes
* Constructivist architecture, an architectural movement in Russia in the 1920s a ...
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Constructor (disambiguation)
Constructor may refer to:
Science and technology
* Constructor (object-oriented programming), object-organizing method
* Constructors (Formula One), person or group who builds the chassis of a car in auto racing, especially Formula One
* Constru ...
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Reconstruction (disambiguation)
Reconstruction may refer to:
Politics, history, and sociology
*Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company
*'' Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Unio ...
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