A structure for supporting or enclosing something else, especially a skeletal support used as the basis for something being constructed.
An external work platform; a scaffold.
A fundamental structure, as for a written work.
A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality.
framework In object-oriented systems, a set of classes that embodies an abstract design for solutions to a number of related problems. (1995-01-30)