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Webster 1913 Edition


Framework

Frame′workˊ

,
Noun.
1.
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.
2.
Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

Webster 1828 Edition


Framework

FRA'MEWORK

,
Noun.
Work done in a frame.

Definition 2024


Framework

Framework

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German

Noun

Framework n (genitive Frameworks, plural Frameworks)

  1. (software) software framework

framework

framework

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English

Noun

framework (plural frameworks)

  1. (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  2. (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  3. (figuratively, especially in computing) A basic conceptual structure.
    • 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 162:
      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 that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
  4. (literally) The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

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