architecture
n.
science of designing and building structures; layout, formation, arrangement; building style or method; design of a computer and its components (Computers)
Architecture
Architecture
architecture
Noun
1. an architectural product or work
(hypernym) building, edifice
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"
(hypernym) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge
(hyponym) landscape architecture
(part-meronym) architectonics, tectonics
(class) astylar
3. the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
(hypernym) profession
(class) cantilever
4. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software"
(synonym) computer architecture
(hypernym) structure
(hyponym) complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC
(classification) computer science, computing
architecture (f)
n.
architecture