Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Construction has 8 different meanings across 1 category:
the act of constructing something
"during the construction we had to take a detour"
"his hobby was the building of boats"
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
"I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"
the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
"The linguist's latest paper focuses on the construction of complex metaphors that bridge abstract concepts in modern philosophy."
a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
"the structure consisted of a series of arches"
"she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
"the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"
an interpretation of a text or action
"they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"
the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
"their main business is home construction"
"workers in the building trades"
The process of constructing.
"The construction of the new library will take three years to complete."