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ar·chi·tec·ture

(är′kĭ-tĕk′chər)

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. Computers The overall design or structure of a computer system or microprocessor, including the hardware or software required to run it.

6. Any of various disciplines concerned with the design or organization of complex systems: enterprise architecture.

[Latin architectūra, from architectus, architect; see architect.]

ar′chi·tec′tur·al adj.

ar′chi·tec′tur·al·ly adv.

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architecturally - with regard to architecture; "this building is ugly, but architecturally interesting"

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architecturalement

architecturally

[ˌɑːkɪˈtektʃərəlɪ] ADV → arquitectónicamente
an architecturally striking building → un edificio impresionante desde el punto de vista arquitectónico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

architecturally

[ˌɑː^rkɪˈtɛktʃərəli] adv → du point de vue de l'architecture

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

architecturally

[ˈɑːkɪˌtɛktʃ/ər/əlɪ] adv → architettonicamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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There was nothing architecturally remarkable about Sir Patrick's house.

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Everything is on a large scale; the public buildings, for instance--and they are architecturally imposing, too, as well as large.

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The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.

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This is a design of complexity and sophistication which will mark out Tate Modern, at least architecturally, as the most important gallery of its type in the world.