architecturally

ar·chi·tec·ture  (ärk-tkchr)

n.

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.

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[Latin architectra, from architectus, architect; see architect.]

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archi·tectur·al adj.

archi·tectur·al·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

architecturally - with regard to architecture; "this building is ugly, but architecturally interesting"