COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does computer architecture mean? 

• COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (noun)
  The noun COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE has 2 senses:

1. the art of assembling logical elements into a computing device; the specification of the relation between parts of a computer system

2. (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software

  Familiarity information: COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The art of assembling logical elements into a computing device; the specification of the relation between parts of a computer system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("computer architecture" is a kind of...):

spec; specification (a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer architecture"):

neural net; neural network (computer architecture in which processors are connected in a manner suggestive of connections between neurons; can learn by trial and error)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

architecture; computer architecture

Context example:

the architecture of a computer's system software

Hypernyms ("computer architecture" is a kind of...):

structure (the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "computer architecture"):

CISC; complex instruction set computer; complex instruction set computing ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip)

reduced instruction set computer; reduced instruction set computing; RISC ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform)