| 释义 |
ˈstructured, ppl. a.
[f. structure v. + ed1.]
1. That possesses structure or organization.
1873Spencer in Contemp. Rev. XXII. 328 The changes by which this structureless mass becomes a structured mass. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 138 The enduring object..may be conceived as independent of the structured society. 1940C. S. Sherrington Man & his Nature xi. 353 There is the difficulty that the outward process on analysis proves always to be ‘granular’, quantal, ‘structured’; the inner process to be structureless, non-quantal. 1962H. A. Gleason in Householder & Saporta Problems in Lexicography 91 Occasionally sets of language phenomena are observed which, though apparently structured, seem not to be so rigorously structured as this. 1968Guardian 12 June 8/4 The taking of hallucinogenic drugs, where the objective is..to erase the influence of structured experience and organisation of perceptual material in order to explore some kind of world beyond the structures. 1980P. Hill Savages iii. 46 The boys are not criminals... They need a structured group, a sense of belonging.
2. a. Organized or arranged so as to produce a desired result. Also loosely, formal, organized, not haphazard.
1959Listener 17 Dec. 1079/1 The use of measured or structured arguments to get at the causes of such interesting phenomena as millionaires or strikes. 1968Brit. Med. Bull. XXIV. 189/2 The computer can accept data only in a highly structured (digital) form. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) v. 59 In certain cases the object was to equip the mother with the ability to work through a structured programme with her child. 1976Ann. Rep. Manpower Services Comm. 1975–76 iv. 30/1 The review is intended to provide a framework within which choices can be made and resources allocated in a more structured way. 1977Cornish Times 19 Aug. 8/7 It will provide all learning opportunities through the medium of formal teaching processes, planned excursions, structured and unstructured play and recreational experiences.
b. Of a computer program: organized in a logical way to facilitate debugging and modification; spec. composed of linked but distinct modules each having one entry point and one exit point, so that the program may be read straight through; so structured programming vbl. n.
1966Information Processing 1965 II. 448/1 (heading) On solving large structured programs. 1972Bit XII. i. 38 (heading) An experiment in structured programming. 1974D. D. McCracken Simplified Guide to Fortran Programming vi. 110 This makes it possible to write the program without a go to... This..is one aspect of structured programming, which holds great promise of converting programming from a hit-or-miss craft into an engineering science. 1978L. A. Leventhal Introd. Microprocessors vi. 250 In structured programming only single logic structures are used. Bohm and Jacopini showed that any program could be written by using only three structures. 1. A sequential structure... 2. A conditional structure of the if-then-else type... 3. A loop structure of the do-while type... The computer executes P repeatedly as long as A is true. 1983Personal Computer World Sept. 216/2 If a program is badly structured..altering one part of the program may have unforeseen effects in a completely different part.
▸ Structured Query Language n. Computing = SQL n.
1977G. H. Denny Stanford Techn. Rep., IBM ra93 (title) An introduction to SQL, a *Structured Query Language. 1992PCDirect Mag. Nov. 332/1 The important factor here is the use of SQL (Structured Query Language), previously the preserve of mainframe and minicomputer vendors but now gaining acceptance as the standard language for database enquiry and connectivity across platforms including micros. 2002Macworld (Electronic ed.) 11 Jan. 78 Because it's compact, very fast, and compatible with the industry standard Structured Query Language, MySQL is particularly well suited to Web use. |