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layered architecture

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layered architecture

An architecture in which data moves from one defined level of processing to another. Communications protocols are a primary example. See OSI model.


layered architecture [′lā·ərd ′är·kə‚tek·chər]
(computer science)
A technique used in designing computer software, hardware, and communications in which system or network components are isolated in layers so that changes can be made in one layer without affecting the others.


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An eight-page color brochure gives an overview of the company's automation components and systems based on a flexible and modular layered architecture.
Geologists had assumed that Mars has a layered architecture, but the radio data provide the first direct evidence of it, notes Pathfinder investigator Ronald Greeley of Arizona State University in Tempe.
The heart of the re-engineering effort involved replacing a complex web of "legacy" code with a streamlined, layered architecture and modular system design.
 
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