architecture

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.
   • 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...
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...
   • the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science for Unscientific People
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.
7. The structure and design of a system or product.
   • 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...2004, Prof P.C.P. Bhatt, (nptel.iitm.ac.in) Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture
   • The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.