unstructured  /ən ˈstrək ʃərd/ ? Meaning of "unstructured"

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Definition(s):

  1. (adj) lacking definite structure or organization
  2. (adj) lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies

Usage(s):

  1. But there's not much evidence that the ways childhood has changed in the past 25 years--less unstructured play, more gadgets, rough college admissions--are actually hurting kids.
  2. Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
  3. In San Antonio that night, her stump speech collapsed into unstructured chaos.

Quotes

  1. "Today, the web exists as a series of unstructured links between pages," Mr Zuckerberg said. "The open graph puts people at the centre of the web."
    on Apr 21, 2010 By: Mark Zuckerberg Source: NEWS.com.au

  2. "I've had a lot of those unstructured briefings and found that I was given, in many instances, not the whole truth, nothing near the whole truth," Leahy said.
    on Mar 22, 2007 By: Patrick Leahy Source: Forbes

  3. "Companies are rapidly recognizing the importance of being able to proactively retain, classify and quickly extract meaningful evidence from terabytes of email, documents, spreadsheets, audio, video and other unstructured data for compliance and...
    on Jul 2, 2007 By: Steve King Source: Web Services Journal

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