architecture
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Noun (4)
- an architectural product or workType of building, edifice
- the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings“architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use”Type of discipline, fine artsKinds urban planningParts architectonics, tectonics
- the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effectType of profession
- (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software“the architecture of a computer's system software”Synonyms: computer architectureType of structureKinds complex instruction set computing, x86, reduced instruction set computing, modified Harvard architecture, x64
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Translations
Noun art of designing buildings
- Spanish
- arquitectura
- French
- architecture
- German
- Architektur
- Italian
- architettura
- Portuguese
- arquitetura
- Turkish
- mimarlık
- Russian
- архитекту́ра arxitektúra
- Arabic
- عِمَارَة ʕimāra
- Chinese
- 建筑学 jiànzhùxué
- Japanese
- 建築 kenchiku
29 more languages
- Dutch
- architectuur
- Polish
- architektura
- Swedish
- arkitektur
- Greek
- αρχιτεκτονική architektonikí
- Korean
- 건축 geonchuk
- Indonesian
- arsitektur
- Vietnamese
- kiến trúc
- Hungarian
- építészet
- Portuguese (PT)
- arquitetura
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 建築學 jiànzhùxué
- Albanian
- arkitekturë
- Catalan
- arquitectura
- Czech
- architektura
- Danish
- arkitektur
- Esperanto
- arkitekturo
- Finnish
- arkkitehtuuri
- Georgian
- არქიტექტურა arkiṭekṭura
- Hebrew
- אַדְרִיכָלוּת adrikhalút
- Latvian
- arhitektūra
- Lithuanian
- architektūra
- Norwegian
- arkitektur
- Romanian
- arhitectură
- Scottish Gaelic
- ailtireachd
- Serbo-Croatian
- arhitektura
- Slovak
- architektúra
- Slovenian
- arhitektura
- Swahili
- usanifu majengo
- Welsh
- pensaernïaeth
- Yiddish
- אַרכיטעקטור arkhitektur
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect.
1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; — often called civil architecture.
Many other architectures besides Gothic.— John Ruskin
3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.— Tyndall.
The formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture.— Burnet.
Military architecture, the art of fortifications. — Naval architecture, the art of building ships.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<architecture> Design, the way components fit together. The term is used particularly of processors, both individual and in general. "The ARM has a really clean architecture". It may also be used of any complex system, e.g. "software architecture", "network architecture".
(1995-05-02)