architecturally

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UK/ɑː.kɪˈtɛk.t͡ʃə.ɹə.li/US/ɑɹ.kɪˈtɛk.t͡ʃɚ.ə.li/

adverb

In an architectural manner.

“an architecturally important work”

UncommonScrabble 25

Meanings

adverbarchitecturally (comparative more architecturally, superlative most architecturally)

comparative more architecturally · superlative most architecturally

  1. In an architectural manner.

    The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 193
  2. Regarding architecture.

    an architecturally important work

    3 more examples

    Architecturally the stations of the Tonbridge-Hastings line are of great interest. Wadhurst, Robertsbridge and Stonegate are of simple Italinate^([sic]) style, unspoiled by that necessary evil of a platform awning.

    1957 August 28, H. P. White, “The Tonbridge-Hastings Line and its Traffic”, in Railway Magazine, page 529

    “There is not going to be a single model for computing. We’ve had the linear, the serial one. We’re developing the neuromorphic methods that are designed around pattern recognition ... There will be a change, not just architecturally, but also in the way we integrate data that we are not doing now."

    2015 July 20, Adrienne LaFrance, quoting Peter Littlewood, “The Definition of 'Computer' Is Changing”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2016

    Our next train is the 0945 Largs service, which we'll take as far as Paisley Gilmour Street - an architecturally magnificent station.

    2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 43

Origin

Translations

Polish architektonicznie
  • architektoniczniein an architectural manner
Portuguese arquitetonicamente, arquiteturalmente
  • arquitetonicamentein an architectural manner
  • arquiteturalmentein an architectural manner
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