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Noun architecture has 4 senses

architecture - an architectural product or work
--₁ is a kind of building, edifice
architecture - 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"
--₂ is a kind of discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge; fine arts, beaux arts
--₂ has parts: architectonics, tectonics
--₂ has particulars: landscape architecture; urban planning; interior design
architecture - the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect
--₃ is a kind of profession
computer architecture, architecture - (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software"
--₄ is a kind of structure
--₄ has particulars:
complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC; reduced instruction set computing, reduced instruction set computer, RISC