The Collaborative International Dictionary
Architecture \Ar"chi*tec`ture\ (?; 135), n. [L. architectura, fr. architectus: cf. F. architecture. See Architect.] 1. The art or science of building; especially, the art of building houses, churches, bridges, and other structures, for the purposes of civil life; -- often called civil architecture.
Many other architectures besides Gothic.
--Ruskin.
3. Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
The architecture of grasses, plants, and trees.
--Tyndall.
The formation of the first earth being a piece of
divine architecture.
--Burnet.
Military architecture, the art of fortifications.
Naval architecture, the art of building ships. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of "military architecture".
The caponier was a nearly perfectly preserved specimen of mid-nineteenth-century military architecture.
It is true that so far as respects the action of the water on the rudder and oars, and of the wind on the sails, it may be placed in the department of mechanics, as Diderot and Dalambert have done: but belonging quite as much to geometry, and allied in it's military character, to military architecture, it simplified our plan to place both under the same head.
Atvar had had to worry about military architecture, both that of the Race and Tosevite, on Tosev 3.
So mighty-looking is this vehicle that you can't think of it in the language of designers or engineers, but must resort to the vocabulary of military architecture, because in spite of its sleekness, it seems to be a fortress on wheels: all compact buttresses, ramparts, terrepleins, scarps, counterscarps, bastions made aerodynamic, condensed and adapted to rolling stock.
The corridors were drab, with the austerity and severity of military architecture wherever he had encountered it.
Ned settled down to do what he most enjoyed: designing military architecture.
It was, Wu Aiping thought, a most excellent example of Ming Dynasty military architecture.
My knowledge of military architecture came from my upbringing in the Citadel and some casual sightseeing among the fortifications of Thrax, and what I knew—.
They passed a few structures built in generally uniform military architecture.