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COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("computer 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 "computer 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 2
Meaning:
The art of assembling logical elements into a computing device; the specification of the relation between parts of a computer system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("computer architecture" is a kind of...):
spec; specification (a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer architecture"):
neural net; neural network (computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons; can learn by trial and error)
