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Wikipedia has an article on: Architecture

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Etymology

From French, from Latin architectura

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular architecture

Plural countable and uncountable; plural architectures

architecture (countable and uncountable; plural architectures)

  1. The art and science of designing buildings and other structures.
    The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
  2. The profession of an architect.
  3. Any particular style of building design.
  4. A unifying structure.
  5. (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
    The Intel architectures have more software written for them.
  6. The structure and design of a system or product.
    The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.

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See also

Appendix:Glossary of architecture

French

Noun

architecture f. (plural architectures)

  1. architecture

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