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 computers hardware or system software; the architecture of a computers system software

    [ Syn: computer architecture ]

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