framework

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frame + work

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Singular
framework

Plural
frameworks

framework (plural frameworks)

  1. (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a buildings 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.
    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

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