ARCHITECTURAL

The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.

Buildings and other large structures: the low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest.

A style and method of design and construction: Byzantine architecture.

Orderly arrangement of parts; structure: the architecture of the federal bureaucracy; the architecture of a novel.

Computer Science The overall design or structure of a computer system, including the hardware and the software required to run it, especially the internal structure of the microprocessor.