| 释义 |
su·per·structure
\ˈsüpə(r)+ˌ-\ noun
Etymology: Latin superstructus (past participle of superstruere to build on or over, from super- + struere to build) + English -ure — more at structure
1. : a structure built on or as a vertical extension of something else : something that is raised on a foundation: as
a. : all of a building above the basement
b. : the structural part of a ship above the main deck
c. : the ties, rails, and fastenings of a railroad track in distinction from the roadbed
2. : an entity, concept, or complex naturally or logically arising from or being based or imposed upon another more original or fundamental entity, concept, or complex
< this credit superstructure rested on commodities, the collateral, rather than on the hard money — W.P.Webb >
< a small nubbin of fact … used as the foundation for a superstructure of inference and suspicion — Elmer Davis >
specifically : an organization of ideas (as an ideology) or of persons (as a state bureaucracy) conceived as existing on a higher less functional level in relation to the fundamental operation of society
< the principle that the form of economy determines the political superstructure — L.S.Feuer >
< saying that religion is a mere superstructure … in the class struggle — David Riesman >
3. : a regular arrangement of the atoms of a solute in the solvent crystals of an alloy that is characteristic of the solute and not of the solvent |