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Any structure built above the top full deck (FM 55-501).
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Any material structure or edifice built on something else; that which is raised on a foundation or basis.
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The Wards are open-topped, with skyscrapers rising from the superstructure. Towers are sealed against vacuum, as the breathable atmosphere envelope is only maintained to a height of about seven meters. The atmosphere is contained by the centrifugal force of rotation and a "membrane" of dense, colorless sulphur hexafluoride gas, held in place by carefully managed mass effect fields.
All that part of a building above the basement.
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The sleepers and fastenings, in distinction from the roadbed.
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The social sphere of ideology which includes religion, art, politics, law and all traditional values.
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The superstructure evolves more slowly and is more resistant to change than the economic infrastructure, especially in the modern industrial age of advanced capitalism.
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structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck
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