n. | 1. | The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; - often called civil architecture. | ||||||
3. | Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
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2. | architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" | |
3. | architecture - the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect | |
4. | architecture - (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software" Synonyms: computer architecture |
(architecture) | architecture - Design, the way components fit together. The term is used particularly of processors, both individual and in general. "The ARM has a really clean architecture". It may also be used of any complex system, e.g. "software architecture", "network architecture". |