System architecture Software Engineering
noun phrase
Definition: A system architecture is the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its elements, the relationships among those elements, the system’s relationships with its environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution [Bakanach 2023/2024].
Example in context: We use biomedical LinkBERT (Yasunaga et al., 2022) as our main system architecture to first extract a set of supporting facts …” [Chen et al. 2023]
Synonym: architecture of a system
Related terms: architectural design, system organization, component structure