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ARCHITECTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):
profession (an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences))
Domain member category:
cantilever (construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed)
terrace; terrasse (provide (a house) with a terrace)
step (furnish with steps)
rail (provide with rails)
air-condition; air-cool (equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature)
seat (provide with seats)
reseat (provide with new seats)
ramp (furnish with a ramp)
crenel; crenelate; crenellate (supply with battlements)
rafter (provide (a ceiling) with rafters)
gate (supply with a gate)
machicolate (supply with projecting galleries)
sanitate (provide with sanitary facilities or appliances)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An architectural product or work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):
building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)
Domain category:
architecture (the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software
Example:
the architecture of a computer's system software
Synonyms:
architecture; computer architecture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):
structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "architecture"):
CISC; complex instruction set computer; complex instruction set computing ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip)
reduced instruction set computer; reduced instruction set computing; RISC ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
Example:
architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("architecture" is a kind of...):
bailiwick; discipline; field; field of study; study; subject; subject area; subject field (a branch of knowledge)
beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)
Meronyms (parts of "architecture"):
architectonics; tectonics (the science of architecture)
Domain member category:
vaulting ((architecture) a vaulted structure)
order ((architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans)
columniation ((architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structure)
fenestration (the arrangement of windows in a building)
art form ((architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture))
hip ((architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof)
build (be engaged in building)
corbel (furnish with a corbel)
cornice (furnish with a cornice)
astylar (lacking columns or pillars)
attached (used of buildings joined by common sidewalls)
detached (used of buildings; standing apart from others)
engaged (built against or attached to a wall)
trabeate; trabeated (not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches))
arced; arched; arching; arciform; arcuate; bowed (forming or resembling an arch)
foliate; foliated (ornamented with foliage or foils)
arch ((architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it)
architectural ornament ((architecture) something added to a building to improve its appearance)
architecture (an architectural product or work)
attic ((architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof)
column; pillar ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)
conge; congee ((architecture) a concave molding)
corbel; truss ((architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent))
corbel arch ((architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet)
corbel step; corbie-step; corbiestep; crow step ((architecture) a step on the top of a gable wall)
corbie gable ((architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps)
corner; quoin ((architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone)
drip; drip mold; drip mould ((architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway))
entablature ((architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof)
foliage; foliation ((architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament)
modillion ((architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice)
pier ((architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows))
pinnacle ((architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower)
scape; shaft ((architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column)
spandrel; spandril (an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them)
term; terminal figure; terminus ((architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "architecture"):
urban planning (the branch of architecture dealing with the design and organization of urban space and activities)
Context examples:
A rare, invasive colorectal adenocarcinoma characterized by the presence of a malignant infiltrate with serrated glandular architecture.
(Colorectal Serrated Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The system provides a reproducible description of the glandular architecture of prostate tissue to which a pathologist assigns a score depending primarily on the microscopic patterns of cancerous glands and cell morphology.
(Gleason Score for Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)
Grb7 is the prototype of a family of adaptor molecules that also include Grb10 and Grb14 that share a conserved molecular architecture including Src homology 2 (SH2) and pleckstrin homology (PH) domains.
(Growth Factor Receptor-Bound Protein 7, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of tissue destruction and effacement of the architecture of the involved tissues.
(Neoplastic Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
These epithelial lesions have a papillary, micropapillary or basally pseudostratified architecture, but are otherwise identical to PanIN-1A.
(Mouse Pancreatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia-1B, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
Although the target of HMG-14/-17 is the nucleosome, the main function of these proteins is to change the architecture of the higher-order chromatin structure.
(Nucleosome Binding Domain, NCI Thesaurus)
The maintenance or growth of tissues, organ primordia, or the parts or whole of an organ in vitro in such a way as to allow differentiation or preservation of the architecture or function.
(Organ Culture, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by the presence of neuroepithelial cells and a papillary architecture.
(Papillary Tumor of the Pineal Region, NCI Thesaurus)
A wide range of architectures are possible, but psammoma body formation is classical.
(Mouse Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
Severe dysplasia, disruption of normal architecture, increased mitotic activity, loss of cellular polarity
(Mouse Islet Cell Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
