1. The art and science of designing and erecting buildings. 2. Buildings and other large structures: the low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest.3. A style and method of design and construction: Byzantine architecture.4. Orderly arrangement of parts; structure: the architecture of the federal bureaucracy; the architecture of a novel.5.Computer Science The overall design or structure of a computer system, including the hardware and the software required to run it, especially the internal structure of the microprocessor.
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Latin architectra, from architectus, architect. See architect.
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