supporting structure

1. 1.

   a structure that serves to support something

   Broaderstructure

   Narrowerframeworkskeletonsupport

Questions about supporting structure

What does supporting structure mean?

supporting structure means "a structure that serves to support something".

Is supporting structure a common word?

supporting structure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.