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A simplified description of a complex entity or process
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framework
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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context literally English) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size. 2 (context figuratively English) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape. 3 (context figuratively especially in computing ...
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Framework \Frame"work`\, n. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. --Milton. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "structure for enclosing or supporting," from frame (n.) + work (n.). Figurative sense "adjusted arrangement" is from 1816.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a simplified description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems" [syn: model , theoretical account ] the underlying structure; "restoring the framework of the bombed building"; ...
Usage examples of framework.
Besides the rustling of the gas cells there was the creaking of the aluminium framework along which he walked and the musical cries of thousands of steel bracing wires.
The framework in which these articles were placed virtually continued to be the apologetic theology, for this maintained a doctrine of God and the world, which seemed to correspond to the earliest tradition as much as it ran counter to the Gnostic theses.
In the physical framework of general relativity and in the corresponding mathematical framework of Riemannian geometry there is a single concept of distance, and it can acquire arbitrarily small values.
Thus, while certain features of consciousness may be perceived only within the conceptual framework of a field theory, others may be observed only in terms of an atomistic theory.
The framework for a baldachin had been erected the day before, at the spot in the center where the Stone of Destiny was to stand.
Ingles at once appropriated William Bates for a walk through the framework of the unfinished dormitories.
It was a typical field cage of the type that cadgers wore on their backs during a hunta cumbersome framework that loomed high above the shoulders and that would have been staggeringly heavy on Earth.
It should be made of light framework, and covered with brown cambric, on which are painted Indian hieroglyphics.
Upon the ground in the corner where it had been thrown lay a drum and cymbals fastened to a framework of wire and straps.
The sky was full of dodecahedral frameworks, triangular faces glimmering, drifting like angular soap bubbles.
It might even seem that these thoughts are sound enough to give some kind of argument for Cartesian dualism, it only being within that framework that they make any sense.
This piece of steel, after having been tempered, was fixed in as firm a way as possible in a solid framework planted in the ground, only a few feet from the great fall, the motive power of which the engineer intended to utilize.
She and Pease were staking down the first tent while Fleat and GoldFeather were starting on the second, lifting the heavy leather covers over the rigid framework of wooden poles.
He went to one of the thick logs that supported the framework of the flume and wrapped his arms and legs around it.
The iron framework was ornamented at intervals with outbreaks of iron leafage and iron fruitage, which had grown rusty with time.