Unstructured

Definition: Unstructured

Unstructured

Adjective

1. Lacking definite structure or organization; "an unstructured situation with no one in authority"; "a neighborhood gang with a relatively unstructured system"; "children in an unstructured environment often feel insecure"; "unstructured inkblots".

2. Lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies.

Date "unstructured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references)

Specialty Definition: Unstructured

Domain	Definition
Computing	For the purpose of file transfer, access and management(FTAM), a constraint set which, when applied to the general hierarchical file model, generates an access structure that consists only of the root node with one data unit. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Unstructured

Synonym: amorphous (adj). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: unstructured constraint set (computing).

Antonym: structured (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unstructured

English words defined with "unstructured": animate ♦ sentient. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unstructured": interview guide ♦ Projective Techniques ♦ Sensitivity Training Groups. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unstructured

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Unstructured for a Summer (1969)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unstructured

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It also has the disadvantage of generating unstructured results. (references)
Business		Although a few companies are making substantial efforts to provide services meeting international standards, tourists are still confronted with the lack of ground transportation facilities, unstructured tour operators, and formalized tourism services. (references)
Economic History	Chad	Distribution is unstructured and most retailing is conducted by informal businesses. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unstructured

"Unstructured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unstructured" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	131	27,855

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Unstructured

Expression using "unstructured": unstructured constraint set. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unstructured

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
unstructured data	18
cap unstructured	9
unstructured data management	9
unstructured	7
text unstructured visualization	5
information unstructured	3
conversion data source unstructured	3
hat unstructured	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unstructured

Language		Translations for "unstructured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		� 特定�"构. (various references)

Danish		ustruktureret filstruktur (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

Dutch		verzameling van ongestructureerde beperkingen (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

French		série de contraintes non structurée (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

German		unstrukturiert (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

Greek		αδόμητος (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

Italian		non strutturato (unstructured constraint set), insieme di vincoli per file non strutturato (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

Pig Latin		ucturedunstray

Portuguese		não estruturado (unstructured constraint set), conjunto de restrições para não estruturado (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

Russian		неструктурный. (various references)

Spanish		conjunto de restricciones no estructurado (unstructured constraint set). (various references)

Swedish		ostrukturerad begränsningsuppsättning (unstructured constraint set), ostrukturerad. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unstructured

Misspellings
	"Unstructured" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enstructured. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unstructured"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unstructured" (pronounced unstru"ksherd)
3	-sh er d	censured, fissured, pressured, ushered.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unstructured

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-n-r-r-s-t-t-u-u-u"
	-2 letters: structured.
	-3 letters: structure, undercuts.
	-4 letters: currents, destruct, nurtured, nurtures, strunted, uncursed, undercut, unrusted, untruest.
	-5 letters: crudest, crusted, current, curtest, cutters, encrust, entrust, nurture, nutters, returns, scutter, student, stunted, sutured, trusted, truster, turners, turrets, uncured, undrest, untruer.
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