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Architecture vs Construction - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between architecture and construction

is that architecture is the art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated while construction is the process of constructing.

architecture

Noun

  • The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
  • The architecture throughout NYC is amazing.
  • The profession of an architect.
  • Any particular style of building design.
  • Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
  • * Tyndall
  • the architecture of grasses, plants, and trees
  • * Burnet
  • the formation of the first earth being a piece of divine architecture
  • A unifying structure.
  • (computing) A specific model of a microchip or CPU.
  • The Intel architectures have more software written for them.
  • 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.
    The architecture of the company's billing system is designed to support its business goals.

    Derived terms

    * enterprise architecture * * microarchitecture * software architecture * system architecture

    See also

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    construction

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of constructing.
  • Construction is underway on the new bridge.
  • Anything that has been constructed.
  • The engineer marvelled at his construction .
  • The trade of building structures.
  • He had worked in construction all his life.
  • A building, model or some other structure.
  • The office was a construction of steel and glass.
  • (arts) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
  • "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
  • The manner in which something is built.
  • A thing of simple construction .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
  • (grammar) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
  • The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
  • American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.
  • The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
  • * 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 95:
  • He had considered sending Lucille away to stay with relations. But then people might have put the worst construction on it – might believe she had done something she shouldn't have.
  • (geometry) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.
  • Synonyms

    * building

    Antonyms

    * destruction

    Derived terms

    * constructionism * constructionist * construction paper * construction site * construction soldier * construction unit * deconstruction * metaconstruction * misconstruction * reconstruction * under construction