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ar·chi·tec·ture

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r) KEY

NOUN:

The art and science of designing and erecting buildings.
Buildings and other large structures: the low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest.
A style and method of design and construction: Byzantine architecture.
Orderly arrangement of parts; structure: the architecture of the federal bureaucracy; the architecture of a novel.
Computer Science The overall design or structure of a computer system, including the hardware and the software required to run it, especially the internal structure of the microprocessor.

ETYMOLOGY:
Latin architectra, from architectus, architect ; see architect

OTHER FORMS:
archi·tectur·al(Adjective), archi·tectur·al·ly(Adverb)

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