| NOUN | artifact | supporting structure | a structure that serves to support something |
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| Meaning | A structure that serves to support something. | |
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| Narrower | framework, frame | A structure supporting or containing something |
| skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframe | The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape | |
| support | supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation | |
| Broader | structure, construction | A thing constructed |
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