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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Architecture \Ar"chi*tec'ture\ (?; 135), noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
architecture
noun
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" [syn: {computer architecture}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
155 Moby Thesaurus words for "architecture": Bauhaus, Byzantine, Egyptian, English, French, German, Gothic, Greco-Roman, Greek, Greek Revival, Italian, Persian, Renaissance, Roman, Romanesque, Spanish, academic, action, anagnorisis, anatomy, angle, architectonics, argument, arrangement, assembly, atmosphere, background, baroque, build, building, casting, catastrophe, characterization, civil architecture, color, complication, composition, conformation, constitution, construct, construction, continuity, contrivance, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, denouement, design, development, device, devising, early renaissance, edifice, elaboration, episode, erection, establishment, extraction, fable, fabric, fabrication, falling action, fashion, fashioning, forging, form, format, formation, forming, formulation, frame, framing, frozen music, functionalism, getup, gimmick, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, house, incident, international, landscape architecture, landscape gardening, line, local color, machining, make, makeup, making, manufacture, manufacturing, medieval, milling, mining, modern, mold, molding, mood, motif, movement, mythos, organic structure, organism, organization, packaged house, pattern, patterning, peripeteia, physique, pile, plan, plot, prefab, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, production, pyramid, raising, recognition, refining, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, setup, shape, shaping, skyscraper, slant, smelting, story, structure, structuring, subject, subplot, superstructure, switch, tectonics, texture, thematic development, theme, tissue, tone, topic, tower, twist, warp and woof, weave, web, workmanship
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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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