ar·chi·tec·ture (är k -t k ch r)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. [Latin architect  ra, from architectus, architect; see architect.]ar chi·tectur·al adj.ar chi·tectur·al·ly adv. |
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| Adv. | 1. | architecturally - with regard to architecture; "this building is ugly, but architecturally interesting" |
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