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substruction

The English word “substruction” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. underbuilding; substructure
  2. foundation; base

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substructio, from substruere, substructum (“to build beneath”), from sub (“under”) + struere (“to build”).

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