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n. A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.

n. An external work platform; a scaffold.

n. A fundamental structure, as for a written work.

n. A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.

n. The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

n. The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

n. A basic conceptual structure.

n. The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

n. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything.

n. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.

n. A structure or fabric for inclosing or supporting anything; a frame; a skeleton: as, the framework of a building; the bones are the framework of the body.

n. Structure; constitution; adjusted arrangement; system.

n. A kind of fancy work made with yarn of silk or worsted drawn across a frame in two directions, and knotted or otherwise secured at the intersections, producing reticulated patterns, sometimes of considerable elaboration.

n. Spinning done on a throstleor ring-frame; also, knitting done on a stocking-frame.

n. a structure supporting or containing something

n. a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process

n. the underlying structure

"Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent told reporters that he could accept the term "framework" instead of "treaty.""

structure   

branchial framework   

concept    structure    requirement    infrastructure    tool    context    approach    perspective    environment    mechanism