Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The science of architecture.
- noun Structural design.
- noun Philosophy The scientific systematization of knowledge.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
architectonic , n., 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of architecture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science pertaining toarchitecture .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the science of architecture
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Examples
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Furthermore, he taught that what Dr. Muna Abul Fadl called the architectonics of this system are flexible and may change according to changing times and cultures.
unknown title 2009
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In her other blog, The Merry Scribbler, PrairieMary has some good things to say about the "architectonics" of writing-- and it is NOT pretentious.
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In her other blog, The Merry Scribbler, PrairieMary has some good things to say about the "architectonics" of writing-- and it is NOT pretentious.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Dr. Muna abul Fadl, the wife of Shaykh Taha Jabir al Alwani and a former full professor of political science in Cairo and probably the most brilliant person I have ever met, taught that the multi-layered "architectonics" of Islamic normative law, the maqasid al shari'ah, are flexible, because the maqasid are a product of human reason based on the coherence of the Qur'an and the matn or substance of the ahadith.
unknown title 2009
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The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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These debts are honored; for his architectonics, Plumly is in debt to no one.
Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009
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The architectonics is desirable in the city to be enhanced,, but the mayor still falls silent for the moment, for he is new.
Problems 2008
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This, epistemologically more radical, reach of Kant's text is suggested by de Man's reading of Kant's architectonics, via the question of the body, toward the end of Phenomenality and
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De Man further explores the economy of "the mutilated body" in his analysis of the Kantian architectonics in
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