| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ar·chi·tec·ture |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  är k -t k ch r |
| NOUN: | 1. The art and science of designing and erecting buildings. 2. Buildings and other large structures: the low, brick-and-adobe architecture of the Southwest. 3. A style and method of design and construction: Byzantine architecture. 4. Orderly arrangement of parts; structure: the architecture of the federal bureaucracy; the architecture of a novel. 5. 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 architect ra, from architectus, architect. See architect. | | OTHER FORMS: | archi·tectur·al —ADJECTIVE
archi·tectur·al·ly —ADVERB
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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