Definition of Architecture. Meaning of Architecture. Synonyms of Architecture

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Definition of Architecture

Architecture
Architecture Ar"chi*tec`ture (?; 135), n. [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. --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.

Meaning of Architecture from wikipedia

- Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills ****ociated with construction. It is both the process...
- Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages...
- Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war...
- Open architecture is a type of computer architecture or software architecture intended to make adding, upgrading, and swapping components with other computers...
- Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier...
- Process architecture is the structural design of general process systems. It applies to fields such as computers (software, hardware, networks, etc.),...
- In computer science and computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts. It...
- software engineering, multitier architecture (often referred to as n-tier architecture) is a client–server architecture in which presentation, application...
- The von Neumann architecture—also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture—is a computer architecture based on the First Draft of a Report...
- Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that...