1. 1  the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect. Architecture often includes design or selection of furnishings and decorations, supervision of construction work, and the examination, restoration, or remodeling of existing buildings. 2. the character or style of building:
The definition of inscrutable is impossible to interpret orunderstand. It means something that is mysterious or something thatis incapable of being scrutinized or investigated.
Suppose sign(x) were added to Python, as a complement to abs(x). If 'x' is an instance of a user-defined class which implements the __abs__(self) method then abs(x) will call x.__abs__(). In order to work correctly, to handle abs(x) in the same way then Python will have to gain a sign(x) slot. This is excessive for a relatively unneeded function.