architecturally

From architectural +‎ -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑː.kɪˈtɛk.t͡ʃə.ɹə.li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹ.kɪˈtɛk.t͡ʃɚ.ə.li/

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architecturally (comparative more architecturally, superlative most architecturally)

1. In an architectural manner.
   • 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:

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

2. Regarding architecture.

   an architecturally important work

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

     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.

   • 2015 July 20, Adrienne LaFrance, quoting Peter Littlewood, “The Definition of 'Computer' Is Changing”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 June 2016:

     “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."

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

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