construction

The commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones.

“their main business is home construction”

The act of constructing something.

“during the construction we had to take a detour”

An interpretation of a text or action.

“they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct”

The creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought.

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”

A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.

“she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons”

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”