Noun
1. the act of constructing or building something;
"during the construction we had to take a detour""his hobby was the building of boats"2. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;
"their main business is home construction""workers in the building trades"3. a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;
"the structure consisted of a series of arches""she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"4. a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit;
"I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"5. the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
6. an interpretation of a text or action;
"they put an unsympathetic construction on his conduct"7. drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem;
"the assignment was to make a construction that could be used in proving the Pythagorean theorem"