Construction
Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the a ...
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, straightedge-and-compass construction – also known as ruler-and-compass construction, Euclidean construction, or classical construction – is the construction of lengths, angles, and other geometric figures using only an ideali ...
in geometry
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Grammatical construction
In linguistics, a grammatical construction is any syntax, syntactic string of words ranging from Sentence (linguistics), sentences over phrase structure rules, phrasal structures to certain complex lexemes, such as phrasal verbs.
Grammatical const ...
, 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), for political purposes
* Construction as synonym for "act of construing":
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Statutory construction in law
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Judicial interpretation
Judicial interpretation is the way in which the judiciary construes the law, particularly constitutional documents, legislation and frequently used vocabulary. This is an important issue in some common law jurisdictions such as the United St ...
of legal terms
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Social construction
Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory. The term can serve somewhat different functions in each field; however, the foundation of this theoretical framework suggests various facets of s ...
, 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 ...
'' (), 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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Abated
- Abrasive blasting
- AC power plugs and sockets
- Access mat
- Accrington brick
- Accropode
- Acid brick
- Acoustic plaster
- Active daylighting
- Adaptive reuse
- Aerial crane
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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'' (Dark Tranquillity album), 2013
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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
* Strict cons ...
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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 the Soviet Union in ...
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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
* Construc ...
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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 Union ...
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Alpha (disambiguation)
Alpha ( or ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.
Alpha or ALPHA may also refer to:
Letters
* Latin alpha (), a letter of the Latin alphabet
* , a glyph in the International Phonetic Alphabet
* , a vowel in the General Alphabet of Camer ...
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Beginning (disambiguation)
Beginning may refer to:
*''Beginning'', an album by Pakho Chau
* ''Beginning'' (play), a 2017 play by David Eldridge
* ''Beginning'' (2020 film), a Georgian-French drama film
* ''Beginning'' (2023 film), an Indian Tamil-language drama film
*"Begin ...
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Birth (disambiguation)
Birth or parturition is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring.
Birth may also refer to:
* Childbirth, birth in humans
Film and television
* ''Birth'', a 1917 documentary film by Alfred C. Abadie and Alfred Warman
* ''Birth ...
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