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construation

UK/kənˈstɹuːeɪʃən/

construation noun: the act or process of construing.

Noun

construation (countable and uncountable, plural construations)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) The act or process of construing.
    • At the level of perception the ideas or notions resulting from such construations are not simple nor accurate, but they can become so by further cognizing operations. […] aggressive, retreative, or indifferent; and functions for evaluative construations, or as Reid calls its for matters of taste...1943, John Thomas Daling, The Theory of Perception of Thomas Reid: An Exposition and Re-valuation, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, →OCLC, pages 175 and 292
    • This gives rise to nonuniform and inconsistent construations of the legal variables and hence the rules involved. Such rules are therefore said to be “open textured”, i.e. their boundaries are not fixed. The much required uniform and consistent construations can be obtained by automated...1988, M.G. Venkatesha Murthy, R.K. Subramanian, “TIDA: An Intelligent System for Legal Consultation”, in P. V. S. Rao, P. Sadanandan, editors, Modern Trends in Information Technology: Proceedings of...

Examples of construation in a sentence

  • This gives rise to nonuniform and inconsistent construations of the legal variables and hence the rules involved.1988, M.G. Venkatesha Murthy, R.K. Subramanian, “TIDA: An Intelligent System for Legal Consultation”, in P. V. S. Rao, P. Sadanandan...
  • [Michael] Halliday (2005) writes of the construation of human experience within writing.2020 August 5, Jacqueline CoxTaylor, “Strategy Technique”, in Seeing What Is: The Education Challenges for Teachers and Their Students...

Synonyms of construation

Forms of construation

pluralconstruations

Origin of construation

From construe + -ation.

Questions about construation

What does construation mean?
Construation means the act or process of construing.
How do you use construation in a sentence?
This gives rise to nonuniform and inconsistent construations of the legal variables and hence the rules involved.
What part of speech is construation?
Construation is a noun.
How do you pronounce construation?
Construation is pronounced /kənˈstɹuːeɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of construation?
The plural of construation is construations.

Words near construation in the dictionary

  1. construably
  2. construal
  3. construals
  4. construance
  5. construances
  6. construation
  7. construations
  8. construct
  9. construct state
  10. construct states
  11. constructability

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