Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being organized.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The machine of a new soul , passage=The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}

(uncountable) The way in which something is organized, such as a book or an article.

(countable) A group of people or other legal entities with an explicit purpose and written rules.

(countable) A group of people consciously cooperating.

(baseball) A major league club and all its farm teams.

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.