noun
- An architectural product or work.
- The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings.
- usage: "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"
- The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect.
- Computer science. ( the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software)
- usage: "the architecture of a computer's system software"
- synonyms: computer architecture
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