understructure
Americannoun
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a structure serving as a support; a base or foundation.
The building has a strong understructure.
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any thing, condition, etc., establishing support; a basis.
an argument that rests on a sound understructure of knowledge.
Etymology
Origin of understructure
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That understructure involved rings of gelatinous, squishy Orbeez balls in a mix of water and glycerin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
Crappie are good on jigs looking in calmer water over and understructure.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 28, 2020
The 2016 Volt is the first full redesign of the car, including a new understructure, bodyshell, interior, engine, Voltec powertrain, and upgraded battery.
From Forbes ● Dec. 31, 2014
When I wrote The Sportswriter, I was writing with a loose understructure that only I knew about and that probably isn’t detectable by the reader.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2014
It was a half teaspoon of beachsand tilted from somewhere in the understructure of the grocery cart.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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