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megastructure, n.|ˈmɛgəˌstrʌktjʊə(r)|
[f. mega- + structure n. 5.]
A massively large construction or complex, esp. one consisting of many buildings. Hence ˌmegaˈstructural a.
1965Life 24 Dec. 146 Other planners foresee skeletal Megastructures of enormous, light-weight ‘space frames’—grid-works towering high in the air. 1967Listener 6 July 12/2 Those temporary heavens of exhibition and transport—the Victorian megastructures—..have acquired a permanence in people's minds out of all proportion to the functions they originally housed. Ibid. 20 July 73/3 The megastructural schemes by Corbusier's followers in Japan. 1968Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 13 Dec. 30/1 Rudolph's design..truly qualifies as a ‘megastructure’, a city-within-a-city. 1973Observer (Colour Suppl.) 2 Dec. 33/3 An early attempt to blend housing, commerce and townscape in one huge building—the lumpish description, ‘urban megastructure’, has been much used. |