archit.

Noun

architecture (countable and uncountable, plural architectures)

1. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
   • The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
2. Any particular style of building design.
3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
   • Our ſoules, whoſe faculties can comprehend
     The wondrous Architecture of the world:
     And meaſure euery wandring planets courſe,
     Still climing after knowledge infinite, […]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...
4. A unifying structure.
5. A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
6. A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
   • The Intel architectures have more software written for them.

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Adjective

architectural (comparative more architectural, superlative most architectural)

1. Pertaining to architecture.
   • The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
2. Resembling architecture in style; seeming to have been designed (by an architect).