a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts | a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current |
the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) |
a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement | the stalk of a stamen |
the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships | |