INFRASTRUCTURE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

Example:

the industrial base of Japan

Synonyms:

base; infrastructure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("infrastructure" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Meronyms (parts of "infrastructure"):

communication equipment; communication system (facility consisting of the physical plants and equipment for disseminating information)

fire station; firehouse (a station housing fire apparatus and firemen)

gas system (facility (plant and equipment) for providing natural-gas service)

main (a principal pipe in a system that distributes water or gas or electricity or that collects sewage)

penal facility; penal institution (an institution where persons are confined for punishment and to protect the public)

grid; power grid; power system (a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region)

public works (structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use)

school system (establishment including the plant and equipment for providing education from kindergarten through high school)

sewage system; sewage works; sewer system (facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage)

transit; transportation; transportation system (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)

water; water supply; water system (a facility that provides a source of water)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic structure or features of a system or organization

Synonyms:

infrastructure; substructure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("infrastructure" is a kind of...):

structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)

Holonyms ("infrastructure" is a part of...):

system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)

Credits

Context examples:

The duties and responsibilities of a clinical research coordinator may vary across different infrastructures.

(Clinical Coordinator, NCI Thesaurus)

However, considering such historical events allows scientists and engineers to understand the effects of space weather on our infrastructure and technical systems.

(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)

The study said the overwhelming majority of pollution-related deaths come in developing countries where the authors say leaders are more concerned about building their economies and infrastructure than environmental regulations.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

Establish appropriate infrastructure for the conduct of HIV research domestically and internationally.

(Infrastructure Domestic and International, NCI Thesaurus)

These proteins direct a complex network of protein filaments that provide stability to the cellular infrastructure by supporting the dynamic motility of microfilaments, thereby enabling intracellular translocation and organelle transport.

(Actin-Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

An infrastructure for multi-institutional clinical trials of imaging and related disciplines applied to cancer.

(American College of Radiology Imaging Network, NCI Thesaurus)

It also facilitates the research of its members, fosters multidisciplinary approaches to cancer, provides infrastructure support for cancer research, and develops new methods and strategies to reduce cancer incidence and mortality.

(Masonic Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A comprehensive, collaborative infrastructure, linked to an informatics structure, to help speed the genetic and epidemiologic study of heritable cancers.

(Cooperative Family Registry, NCI Thesaurus)

The results, are key for the study of long-term dune migration, which threatens shipping channels, increases desertification, and can bury infrastructure such as highways.

(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)

The Bioinformatics Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with the infrastructure and guidance in the following areas: genomic data analysis, microarray data analysis, protein structure and molecular modeling, computational tools, database mining, development, and support, and training for user community.