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ar⋅chi⋅tec⋅ture

  [ahr-ki-tek-cher]
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–noun
1. the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selection of furnishings and decorations, supervision of construction work, and the examination, restoration, or remodeling of existing buildings.
2. the character or style of building: the architecture of Paris; Romanesque architecture.
3. the action or process of building; construction.
4. the result or product of architectural work, as a building.
5. buildings collectively.
6. a fundamental underlying design of computer hardware, software, or both.
7. the structure of anything: the architecture of a novel.
Origin:
1555–65; (< MF) < L architectūra. See architect, -ure
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ar·chi·tec·ture   (är'kĭ-těk'chər)   
n.  

  1. The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.

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

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

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

  5. 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.


[Latin architectūra, from architectus, architect; see architect.]
ar'chi·tec'tur·al adj., ar'chi·tec'tur·al·ly adv.
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Main Entry: ar·chi·tec·ture
Pronunciation: 'är-k&-"tek-ch&r
Function: noun
: the basic structural form especially of abodily part or of a large molecule architecture and function of the cerebral cortex> architecture of muscle cells —Carolyn Cohen> —ar·chi·tec·tur·al /"är-k&-'tek-ch&-r&l, -'tek-shr&l/ adjective —ar·chi·tec·tur·al·ly /-E/ adverb
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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".
(1995-05-02)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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