framework

See also: Framework

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

frame +‎ work

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪmwɜːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪmwɝk/

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)?”, 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.

Derived terms

• architectural framework
• framework agreement
• software framework

Translations

the arrangement of support beams that represent a buildings general shape and size

• Breton: frammadur m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨架 (zh) (gǔjià), 框架 (zh) (kuàngjià)

• Czech: kostra (cs) f, konstrukce (cs) f
• Dutch: geraamte n
• Finnish: kehikko
• German: Rahmen (de) m, Gerüst (de) n, Fachwerk (de) n
• Greek: πλαίσιο (el) n (plaísio)
• Italian: struttura (it) f, impalcatura f, intelaiatura (it) f

• Japanese: 骨組み (ほねぐみ, honegumi)
• Macedonian: оплата f (óplata)
• Polish: szkielet (pl) m
• Portuguese: vigamento m, travejamento m
• Romanian: ramă (ro) f, structură (ro) m, schelet (ro) n
• Russian: остов (ru) m (ostóv), корпус (ru) m (kórpus), каркас (ru) m (karkás), рама (ru) f (ráma)
• Serbo-Croatian: kostur (sh) m, konstrukcija (sh) f
• Turkish: çatkı (tr), çatık (tr), iskele (tr), karkas (tr), yapı iskelesi, yapı karkası

a basic conceptual structure

• Chamicuro: ipakolo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結構 (zh), 结构 (zh) (jiégòu), 架構 (zh), 架构 (jiàgòu)

• Czech: soustava, systém (cs), aplikační rámec m
• Dutch: framework n, kader (nl) n
• Finnish: viitekehys (fi), kehikko
• French: structure (fr)
• German: Bezugssystem n, Gefüge n, (computing) Programmiergerüst n, Rahmenkonzept n, Rahmenwerk n
• Greek: πλαίσιο (el) n (plaísio), σκελετός (el) m (skeletós)
• Italian: infrastruttura (it) f

• Japanese: 構造 (ja) (こうぞう, kōzō), フレームワーク (ja) (furēmuwāku), 骨組み (ほねぐみ, honegumi)
• Latin: compāgēs f
• Lithuanian: infratruktūra f
• Macedonian: рамки f pl (rámki)
• Portuguese: infraestrutura (pt) f
• Russian: инфраструктура (ru) f (infrastruktúra), система взглядов f (sistéma vzgljádov), точка отсчёта f (tóčka otsčóta), рамки (ru) f pl (rámki), условия (ru) n pl (uslóvija)
• Serbo-Croatian: okvir, infrastruktura (sh) f, okosnica (sh) f
• Spanish: infraestructura f
• Swedish: ramverk n
• Turkish: çerceve, (medicine) iskele (tr), karkas (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} charpente, ^{(please verify)} carcasse, ^{(please verify)} cadre
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} marco