different between architecture vs hierarchy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French architecture, from Latin architect?ra. Originally from architect, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (arkhitékt?n, “architect”, literally “chief builder, principal craftsman”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.k?.?t?k.t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?t?kt??/
• Hyphenation: ar?chi?tec?ture

Noun

architecture (countable and uncountable, plural architectures)

1. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
   • April 21, 2017, Max Roscoe, How Your City Is Killing You With Ugliness[1]

     Architecture is the visual public expression of a culture’s achievements, values, and outlook.# The profession of an architect.

2. Any particular style of building design.
3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
   • 1871, John Tyndall, Fragments of Science for Unscientific People

     the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees

   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     the formation of the first Earth, after such a wonderful manner, being a piece of Divine Architecture

4. A unifying structure.
5. (computing) A family of CPUs sharing a common instruction set and having partial or full compatibility with software built on each other.
6. (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.

7. The structure and design of a system or product.
   • 2004, Prof P.C.P. Bhatt, (nptel.iitm.ac.in) Module 14: Unix Kernel Architecture

     The kernel runs the show, i.e. it manages all the operations in a Unix flavored environment. The kernel architecture must support the primary Unix requirements. These requirements fall in two categories namely, functions for process management and functions for file management (files include device files). Process management entails allocation of resources including CPU, memory, and offers services that processes may need. The file management in itself involves handling all the files required by processes, communication with device drives and regulating transmission of data to and from peripherals.

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Appendix:Glossary of architecture

French

Etymology

From Latin architect?ra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.?i.t?k.ty?/

Noun

architecture f (plural architectures)

1. architecture

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Further reading

• “architecture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English ierarchie, jerarchie, from Old French ierarchie, jerarchie, from Late Latin ierarchia, from Latin hierarchia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (hierarkhía, “rule of a high priest”), from ???????? (hierárkh?s, “high priest”), from ????? (hierós, “holy”) + ???? (árkh?, “I rule”). The H was re-added c. 1500 due to influence from Classical Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ha?.?.???(?).ki/, /?ha?.???(?).ki/

Noun

hierarchy (plural hierarchies)

1. A body of authoritative officials organized in nested ranks.
2. A social, religious, economic or political system or organization in which people or groups of people are ranked with some superior to others based on their status, authority or some other trait.
3. Any group of objects ranked so that every one but the topmost is subordinate to a specified one above it.

Related terms

• hierarch
• hierarchic
• hierarchical
• hierarchically
• hierarchize
• hierarchization

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