architecture
Pluralarchitectures (some meanings)
- 1The work of planning and designing buildings, often to make them strong and good to look at.
Like drawing a careful plan before building, so the finished place is strong and looks good.
She studied architecture at college and now designs schools.
Good architecture makes a building both useful and nice to look at.
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- 2A certain style of designing buildings, like the look used in one time or place.
Like different styles of clothes: each time and place has its own look.
Gothic architecture uses tall windows and pointed arches.
The town is famous for its old Spanish architecture.
Similarstyle
- 3The way a system or product is built and arranged inside.
Like the layout of a house: where the rooms are and how they connect.
The software's architecture keeps each part separate and easy to fix.
Engineers explained the architecture behind the new payment system.
Similardesign, structure, framework
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- 4A structure that brings different parts together into one whole.
Like a frame that holds many pictures together as one display.
The plan gave the project a clear architecture that tied every team together.
A shared architecture connected the small groups into one organization.
- 5A group of computer processors that share the same basic instructions and can run much of the same software.
Like different shapes of plug: a tool made for one may not fit another.
Most phones today use the ARM architecture.
Programs written for one architecture may not run on another.
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- 6A particular model or design of a computer chip.
Like the inside design of one particular car engine.
The new laptop uses Apple's latest chip architecture.
This architecture runs cooler than the previous model.
Similardesign
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- 7The way something is built, or the work that goes into building it.
Like the way a house is put together with beams and boards.
The bridge's architecture has lasted over a hundred years.
You can admire the fine architecture of the old wooden ship.
Similarconstruction, structure, framework, build
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Origin
It came from French 'architecture' and before that Latin 'architectura'. The root is a Greek word meaning 'chief builder'.