superstructure.
Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
Meaning & usage
Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
All that part of a building above the basement.
The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English structure English superstructure From super- + structure.
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