Architecture

Portuguese Meaning

arquitetura

English Meaning

  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. Computer Science The overall design or structure of a computer system, including the hardware and the software required to run it, especially the internal structure of the microprocessor.