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English Dictionary: Architecture by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Architecture
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
architecture
n
  1. an architectural product or work
  2. 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. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
  4. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software"
    Synonym(s): computer architecture, architecture
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Architecture \Ar"chi*tec`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. architectura,
      fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See {Architect}.]
      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.
  
                     Many other architectures besides Gothic. --Ruskin.
  
      3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure;
            workmanship.
  
                     The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.
                                                                              --Tyndall.
  
                     The formation of the first earth being a piece of
                     divine architecture.                           --Burnet.
  
      {Military architecture}, the art of fortifications.
  
      {Naval architecture}, the art of building ships.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   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)
  
  
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