architecture
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(noun) the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect |
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Related Words: profession |
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(noun) an architectural product or work |
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Related Words: building, edifice |
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(noun) the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" |
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Related Words: branch of knowledge, discipline, field, field of study, interior design, landscape architecture, study, subject, subject area, subject field, urban planning |
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(noun) the manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the architecture of a computer's system software" |
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Synonyms: structure |
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Related Words: composition, computer architecture, constitution, cytoarchitectonics, cytoarchitecture, fabric, framework, makeup |
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