architecture

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Etymology

From French, from Latin architectūra

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Noun

architecture (countable and uncountable; plural architectures)

1. The art and science of designing buildings and other structures.

   The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.

2. The profession of an architect.
3. Any particular style of building design.
4. A unifying structure.
5. (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.

   The Intel architectures have more software written for them.

6. The structure and design of a system or product.

   The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.

Derived terms

Derived terms

enterprise architecture software architecture system architecture

Related terms

architectonic architect architectural

Translations

art and science of designing buildings and other structures

Afrikaans: argitektuur Albanian: arkitekturë (sq) Arabic: هندسة معمارية (ar) (hándasa mi3maaríyya) f., عمارة (ar) (‎3imaara) f. Armenian: ճարտարապետություն (hy) (č̣artarapetut’yun) Azeri: memarlıq (az) Belarusian: архітэктура (be) (arxitektúra) f. Bosnian: arhitektura (bs) f. Bulgarian: архитектура (bg) (arhitektúra) f. Catalan: arquitectura Chinese: Mandarin: 建築學 (cmn), 建筑学 (cmn) (jiànzhùxué) Croatian: arhitektura (hr) f. Czech: architektura (cs) f. Danish: arkitektur (da) Dutch: architectuur (nl) f. Esperanto: arkitekturo (eo), arĥitekturo (eo) Finnish: arkkitehtuuri (fi) French: architecture (fr) f. German: Architektur (de) f. Greek: αρχιτεκτονική (el) (architektonikí) f. Hebrew: אדריכלות (he) (adrikhalut) f. Ido: arkitekturo Interlingua: architectura Irish: ailtireacht (ga) Italian: architettura (it) f.

Japanese: 建築 (ja) (けんちく, kenchiku), 建築学 (ja) (けんちくがく, kenchikugaku) Korean: 건축 (ko) (geonchuk), 건축학 (ko) (geonchuk-hak) Latin: architectura (la) f. Latvian: arhitektūra (lv) f. Macedonian: архитектура (mk) (arhitektúra) f. Manx: ard-obbrinys (gv) m. Nahuatl: arquitectura Norwegian: arkitektur (no) Persian: معماری (fa) (me'mâri) Polish: architektura (pl) f. Portuguese: arquitectura (pt) f. (Portugal), arquitetura (pt) f. (Brazil) Romanian: arhitectură (ro) f. Russian: архитектура (ru) (arxitektúra) f., зодчество (ru) (zódčestvo) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: архитектура (sh) f. Roman: arhitektura (sh) f. Slovene: arhitektura (sl) f. Spanish: arquitectura (es) f. Swahili: majenzi Swedish: arkitektur (sv) Tagalog: arkitektura (tl) Turkish: mimarlık (tr) Ukrainian: архітектура (uk) (arxitektúra) f. Volapük: bumav (vo) Welsh: pensaernïaeth

See also

Appendix:Glossary of architecture

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French

Etymology

From Latin architectūra

Pronunciation

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Noun

architecture f. (plural architectures)

1. architecture

Related terms

• architecte
• architectural
• architecturer