Associations to the word «Architecture»

Pictures for the word «Architecture»

Wiktionary

ARCHITECTURE, noun. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. The profession of an architect.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. Any particular style of building design.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. A unifying structure.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. The structure and design of a system or product.

Dictionary definition

ARCHITECTURE, noun. An architectural product or work.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use".
ARCHITECTURE, noun. The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect.
ARCHITECTURE, noun. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software".

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke