Definitions for infrastructure
ˈɪn frəˌstrʌk tʃərin·fra·struc·ture

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.5 / 2 votes

1. infrastructure, substructurenoun

   the basic structure or features of a system or organization

2. infrastructure, basenoun

   the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

   "the industrial base of Japan"

WiktionaryRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

1. infrastructurenoun

   An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system

2. infrastructurenoun

   The basic facilities, services and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society

3. Etymology: Perhaps from infrastructure, equivalent to.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Infrastructure

   Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. Infrastructure is composed of public and private physical structures such as roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, and telecommunications (including Internet connectivity and broadband access). In general, infrastructure has been defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions" and maintain the surrounding environment.Especially in light of the massive societal transformations needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change, contemporary infrastructure conversations frequently focus on sustainable development and green infrastructure. Acknowledging this importance, the international community has created policy focused on sustainable infrastructure through the Sustainable Development Goals, especially Sustainable Development Goal 9 "Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure". One way to describe different types of infrastructure is to classify them as two distinct kinds: hard infrastructure and soft infrastructure. Hard infrastructure is the physical networks necessary for the functioning of a modern industry. This includes roads, bridges, and railways. Soft infrastructure is all the institutions that maintain the economic, health, social, environmental, and cultural standards of a country. This includes educational programs, official statistics, parks and recreational facilities, law enforcement agencies, and emergency services.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infrastructure

   Infrastructure refers to the fundamental facilities, services, and physical systems needed for the functioning of a community, organization or society. This includes transportation systems like roads and bridges, utilities such as electricity and water supply, communication networks, public institutions like schools, hospitals and government buildings, and other services essential for development and growth. Infrastructure can also refer to the underlying framework or basic structure of an organization or system.

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Infrastructure

   Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function. It can be generally defined as the set of interconnected structural elements that provide framework supporting an entire structure of development. It is an important term for judging a country or region's development. The term typically refers to the technical structures that support a society, such as roads, bridges, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth, and can be defined as "the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions." Viewed functionally, infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services, and also the distribution of finished products to markets, as well as basic social services such as schools and hospitals; for example, roads enable the transport of raw materials to a factory. In military parlance, the term refers to the buildings and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and operation of military forces. To make it simple, infrastructure is anything that is needed everyday, an everyday item.

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infrastructure

   All building and permanent installations necessary for the support, redeployment, and military forces operations (e.g., barracks, headquarters, airfields, communications, facilities, stores, port installations, and maintenance stations). See also bilateral infrastructure; common infrastructure; national infrastructure.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. infrastructure

   The accurate and specific structures, systems, features, and organizations required for a community or society to function effectively and efficiently.

   Society has much infrastructure necessary to live easily, simply and harmoniously.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Store
   • Structure

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'infrastructure' in Nouns Frequency: #2988

How to pronounce infrastructure?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of infrastructure in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of infrastructure in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of infrastructure in a Sentence

1. President Andrzej Duda:

   Today, everything points to the need to have substantial presence of both infrastructure and military units on the ground in central European countries, as well as a well worked-out system for these units and defense should there be any act of aggression, that means increasing presence in central-eastern Europe, both in terms of infrastructure and in terms of troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This is to be agreed ... what shape this presence would take.

2. Daniel Pinto:

   The outcomes could range from a very small change to a substantial one, where you would have to duplicate some of the infrastructure you now have in the UK, it is too early to say what products you are going to be able to provide from where.

3. President Juan Manuel Santos:

   It's inconceivable that this group, instead of giving concrete displays of peace, insists on kidnapping and attacking the infrastructure of Colombians, like it did today with another pipeline bombing, causing immense harm to the environment.

4. Jonathan Chester:

   Everyone creates their own mission or vision to build on top of the Bitcoin infrastructure, think of the Internet. There’s no mission or vision of the Internet -- it’s just what people want to do with this cool product.

5. Arif Habib:

   You have the land and ... infrastructure but it doesn't have the machinery.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=infrastructure
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Infrastructure
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=infrastructure
6. ^ Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
   https://www.tradoc.army.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/AD1029823-DOD-Dictionary-of-Military-and-Associated-Terms-2017.pdf