architecture
/ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃɚ/ noun A2- The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated. · The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
- Any particular style of building design.
- Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
- A unifying structure.
- A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
- A specific model of a microchip or CPU. · The Intel architectures have more software written for them.
- The structure and design of a system or product. · The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.
Plural architectures
From the library
He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed—though he would not have dared to admit it in New York—that the Flatiron Building was inferior in design to the great cathedral in Milan.
Between the court and the garden, built in the heavy style of the imperial architecture, was the large and fashionable dwelling of the Count and Countess of Morcerf.
Holmes walked slowly, taking keen note of the architecture of the house.
“Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B’s before very long.
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