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Substructure

noun

The basic structure or features of a system or organization. Synonym: infrastructure.

Lowest support of a structure. Synonyms: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, understructure. "He stood at the foot of the tower"

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"Substructure" Quotes from Famous Books

... holds captive the wistful thought of the children of earth, and reveals itself as elusively as ecstasy. If one can remember some journey that he has taken long ago—Long Ago and Far Away are the great touchstones—and can remember the glamourie of the hour and forget the substructure of events, if he can recall the pattern and forget the fabric, then he will understand the spirit that informed that first morning in Yaque. It was a morning all compact of wonder and delight—wonder at that which half-revealed itself, delight in the ever-present possibility ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

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... Labriola. "The totality of the unity of social life is the subject matter present to our minds. It is economics itself which dissolves in the course of one process, to reappear in as many morphological stages, in each of which it serves as a substructure for all the rest. Finally, it is not our method to extend the so-called economic factor isolated in an abstract fashion over all the rest, as our adversaries imagine, but it is, before everything else, to form an historic ...

— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte

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... the two laws and nationalities by superimposing the better consolidated Norman superstructure on the better consolidated English substructure, runs through the ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 • Various

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Words linked to "Substructure" : construction, bed, raft foundation, infrastructure, foundation, structure, support, system