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noun the act of constructing something
noun a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
noun the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
originFrom Middle English construccioun, construction, from Old French construction, from Latin cōnstructiō, from cōnstruere. Morphologically construct + -ion.
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