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Definition of: architecture
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(ä′kə·tek′chər) noun
1. The science, art, or profession of designing and constructing buildings or other structures.
2. A style or system of building: Gothic architecture.
3. Construction or structure generally; any ordered arrangement of the parts of a system: the architecture of the universe.
4. A building, or buildings collectively. [<F <L architectura < architectus. See ARCHITECT.]
—ar′chi·tec′tur·al adjective
—ar′·chi·tec′tur·al·ly adverb
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