4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Architecture \Ar"chi*tec`ture\ (?; 135), n. [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
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
computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture
of a computer's system software" [syn: {computer
architecture}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
architecture
<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)
From eng-fra [engfra]:
architecture
[ɑːkitektʃər]
architecture