framework

A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.

Noun

  1. A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
  2. The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

    Synonyms: ossature

  3. The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  4. A basic conceptual structure.
    • These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
    • He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show...
  5. A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
  6. An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.

Origin

From frame + work.

Forms

frameworks

Derived

extraframework framework agreement framework directive framework knitter framework law framework silicate institutional framework interframework intraframework metaframework metal-organic framework microframework multiframework reference framework regulatory framework underframework viewpoints framework