Architecture

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  • noun. The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.
  • noun. Buildings and other large structures.
  • noun. A style and method of design and construction.
  • noun. Orderly arrangement of parts; structure.
  • noun. The overall design or structure of a computer system or microprocessor, including the hardware or software required to run it.
  • noun. Any of various disciplines concerned with the design or organization of complex systems.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The design of the strictly architectural buildings in such pleasure-grounds (pavilions, casinos, terrace walls, parapets, perrons, and pedestals for statues).
  • noun. that of the time of Herod Agrippa (37–44 a. d.), under whom the system of design was Roman, with, only such modification as was common in the cities of Syria.
  • noun. Architecture in which the work is cast in a solid mass (as in pisé, or rammed clay), in recent times by means of artificial stone.
  • noun. The art of building, specifically of fine or beautiful building.
  • noun. The buildings or other objects produced by architecture as defined above.
  • noun. The character or style of building: as, the architecture of Paris.
  • noun. Construction and formative design of any kind.
  • To construct; build.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
  • noun. the art of fortifications.
  • noun. the art of building ships.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The art and science of designing buildings and other structures.
  • noun. The profession of an architect.
  • noun. Any particular style of building design.
  • noun. A unifying structure.
  • noun. A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
  • noun. The structure and design of a system or product.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
  • noun. the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
  • noun. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
  • noun. an architectural product or work
  • Word Usage
    "He studied architecture at the University of British Columbia as an undergraduate and earned a master's in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley -- where he was given a teaching job in ethnic studies after students, angry about Vietnam, protested for a less Eurocentric curriculum."
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