As a fail-safe, he added straight, diagonal cables to stiffen the superstructure.
The wind battered the thick windows and ripped past the superstructure with a buffeted keening.
The building makes use of the weathering cliffs for its superstructure.
The second drawing is of the mud brick superstructure surrounding the clay bricks.
Eleven thousand three hundred tons of superstructure steel are waiting.
By the nineteen-eighties, a huge superstructure had resulted from the government's war on cancer.
These early papers are a little flaccid in the empirical details when set next to the theoretical superstructure.
Now it falls to the crew to go out and de-ice the superstructure, but of course this is happening when the weather is awful.
Write down the big ideas that form the superstructure of the piece.
But critics err in arguing that a deterrence strategy does not provide a suitable superstructure for such policies.
British Dictionary definitions for superstructure
superstructure
/ˈsuːpəˌstrʌktʃə/
noun
1.
the part of a building above its foundation
2.
any structure or concept erected on something else
3.
(nautical) any structure above the main deck of a ship with sides flush with the sides of the hull
4.
the part of a bridge supported by the piers and abutments
5.
(in Marxist theory) an edifice of interdependent agencies of the state, including legal and political institutions and ideologies, each possessing some autonomy but remaining products of the dominant mode of economic production