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ar·chi·tec·ture
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
architect ra,
from
architectus,
architect;]
ar chi·tec tur·al
adj.
archi·tectur·al·ly
adv.
architecture
[ˈɑːkɪˌtɛktʃə]
n
1.
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the art and
science of designing and superintending the erection of
buildings and similar structures
2.
(Fine
Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) a style of
building or structure
Gothic architecture
3.
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) buildings or
structures collectively
4.
the structure or design of anything
the architecture of the universe
5.
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) the
internal organization of a computer's components with
particular reference to the way in which data is
transmitted
6.
(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) the
arrangement of the various devices in a complete
computer system or network
architectural
adj
architecturally
adv |
