architecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.tʃə/
ipa: /ˈɑɹ.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: architectures
Etymology: Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architectūra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιτέκτων (arkhitéktōn, “architect”, literally “arch builder, ext. chief builder, principal craftsman”).
Senses: examples: text: The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
text: April 21, 2017, Max Roscoe, How Your City Is Killing You With Uglinesshttps://web.archive.org/web/20201112015531/https://www.returnofkings.com/118275/how-your-city-is-killing-you-with-ugliness
Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook.# The profession of an architect.
glosses: The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
glosses: Any particular style of building design.
examples: text: Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
The wondrous Architecture of the world:
And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:
text: the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees
ref: 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science for Unscientific People:
text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
the formation of the first Earth, after such a wonderful manner, being a piece of Divine Architecture
glosses: Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
glosses: A unifying structure.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
examples: text: The Intel architectures have more software written for them.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
examples: text: 2004, Prof P.C.P. Bhatt, (nptel.iitm.ac.in) Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture
The kernel runs the show, i.e. it manages all the operations in a Unix flavored environment. The kernel architecture must support the primary Unix requirements. These requirements fall in two categories namely, functions for process management and functions for file management (files include device files). Process management entails allocation of resources including CPU, memory, and offers services that processes may need. The file management in itself involves handling all the files required by processes, communication with device drives and regulating transmission of data to and from peripherals.
text: The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.
glosses: The structure and design of a system or product.
Hyponyms: computer architecture
Cyclopean architecture
enterprise architecture
enterprise architecture model
event-driven architecture
formula architecture
Harvard architecture
kinetic architecture
landscape architecture
load-store architecture
message-driven architecture
microarchitecture
micro-architecture
model-driven architecture
modified Harvard architecture
origamic architecture
pandemonium architecture
quality-driven archictecture
search-oriented architecture
security architecture
service-oriented architecture
software architecture
system architecture
systems architecture
vernacular architecture
von Neumann architecture
Derived terms: advertecture
angioarchitecture
aquatecture
architect
architectonic
architectural
architectured
architecturesque
architextuality
architourism
architourist
arcology
astroarchitecture
barkitecture
bioarchitecture
biotecture
blobitecture
chemoarchitecture
cytoarchitecture
dearchitecturization
duplitecture
ecoarchitecture
ecotecture
hepatoarchitecture
histoarchitecture
hostile architecture
immunoarchitecture
macroarchitecture
marchitecture
marketecture
multiarchitecture
mycotecture
myeloarchitecture
myoarchitecture
nanoarchitecture
neuroarchitecture
nonarchitecture
oyster-tecture
parkitecture
rearchitecture
starchitecture
subarchitecture
synaptoarchitecture
xenoarchitecture