(n.) 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.
(n.) Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship.
Example Sentences:
(1) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(4) In order to identify these anchorage structures, the non-DNA materials that remain firmly bound to chromosomal DNA under conditions that disintegrate the high salt-stable architecture of nuclei were investigated.
(5) The B-cell origin of this tumor was determined by its histological architecture, by immunophenotypic analysis, and by Southern analysis of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements.
(6) Review of the traditional medical hierarchy and its legal implications, architecture of health institutions, medical records systems, and the selection of medical students are other areas for specific attention.
(7) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(8) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(9) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(10) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(11) An age and prevalence study of the categorized disc showed that, with age, the disc undergoes an architectural transformation from WD through IM to ID.
(12) The architecture of this study was designed to be simple, effective, and repeatable with minimal complications.
(13) The architecture of the tumour margin is an essential feature for the histological diagnosis of certain neoplasms.
(14) We have developed the DUNE (Diagnostic Understanding of Natural Events) system architecture that organizes the knowledge around processing structures.
(15) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(16) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(17) We first present a model of the functional architecture of the cognitive calculation system based on previous research.
(18) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(19) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(20) True to her interest in art and architecture, Prada has set up a foundation to promote art exhibitions and off-the-wall projects like the Prada Transformer – a building by architect Rem Koolhaas in Seoul which changes shape depending on its function.
Tectonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Either this is proof that cooking is the only human activity that has no politics, or it will come to be seen as the first move in a tectonic realignment of social democracy.
(2) Although earthquakes are mainly concentrated in zones close to boundaries of tectonic plates of the Earth's lithosphere, infrequent events away from the main seismic regions can cause major disasters.
(3) "A network of fault lines radiate away from the main fault that separates tectonic plates.
(4) Endemic patterns of distribution within China relate to the well-known tectonic (basinal or platformal) regions.
(5) The second case required surgical intervention to provide tectonic support, but the infection resolved with antibiotic therapy.
(6) These results were interpreted as further support for the hypothesis that most anomalous (terrain-related) luminous phenomena are generated by factors associated with tectonic strain.
(7) Luminous phenomena and anomalous physical forces have been hypothesized to be generated by focal tectonic strain fields that precede earthquakes.
(8) This is a tectonic geopolitical shift in eastern Europe .” As a Black Sea littoral country invaded and partitioned by Russia in 2008, Georgia is closely following events in Crimea, Ukraine’s Russian-majority region and base for the Kremlin’s Mediterranean fleet.
(9) Zakrzewski said the world is in the midst of a "tectonic shift" that will see Asia overtake Europe in terms of total wealth within five years.
(10) As to the specific cause of the earthquake, it was triggered by the India tectonic plate, which is moving northwards at the rate of 5cm a year into central Asia.
(11) We report on 17 eyes of 14 patients with PUK that required tectonic keratoplasty because of progressive ulceration.
(12) In the case reported the tectonic keratoplasty healed up without any complications.
(13) A night when English football’s tectonic plates shifted.
(14) I guarantee that I would carry out any order, will solve any problem for him no matter how hard it is and how much it might cost me!” All of this has led many to see an epic power struggle behind the scenes, but the former Kremlin insider was dismissive of talk of a shift in the tectonic plates under the Kremlin: “I wouldn’t worry about it too much.
(15) Epikeratophakia provides a permanent optical correction for aphakia in children with congenital or traumatic cataracts; suturing the epikeratophakia graft onto the cornea eliminates the problems of contact lens or spectacle non-compliance in these young and generally uncooperative patients and provides tectonic support to scarred and irregular corneas.
(16) They are geochemical profiles, geomagnetic variations, and tectonic stresses.
(17) An unrelenting Russian and Syrian blitz of eastern Aleppo heavily damaged one of the city’s three remaining hospitals on Saturday, as Moscow warned that any American attempts to stop its assault would lead to “frightening tectonic shifts in the Middle East”.
(18) The 72 eyes were placed in five categories according to the surgical procedures performed: (a) 20 eyes with a penetrating keratoplasty as the only intraocular operation; (b) nine eyes with two or more penetrating keratoplasties; (c) 29 eyes with one or more keratoplasties with other procedures performed at the same time or another time; (d) nine eyes with lamellar keratoplasties; (e) five eyes with tectonic keratoplasties.
(19) To our knowledge, this is the first case of tectonic keratoprosthesis using expanded PTFE as a supporting skirt in humans.
(20) Penetrating keratoplasty was performed in three eyes, eccentric keratoplasty in one, a penetrating mini-keratoplasty in four, and a tectonic sclerokeratoplasty in three.