Meaning & use
architecture
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The art and practice of designing and constructing buildings; also, the underlying structure or design of a complex system.
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The city is famous for its Gothic architecture.
The engineers redesigned the software's architecture to handle more users.
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Widely used beyond buildings to describe the overall structure of anything complex, especially computer systems and organizations.
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