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[ noun ] a simplified description of a complex entity or process

Examples

"the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

There is no framework or structure of thought with_respect_to which we can organize it and no part of reality , as we know and apprehend it , with_respect_to which we can refer this experience .

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

Only within the framework of a mature relationship characterized by honest appraisals of performance can we provide telling assistance .

(Whit Masterson, Evil Come, Evil Go....)

Within this framework , what followed was strained , even macabre .

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[ noun ] the underlying structure

Synonyms

fabric

Examples

"restoring the framework of the bombed building" "it is part of the fabric of society"

Used in print

(Brainard Cheney, "Christianity and the Tragic Vision-Ut...)

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San_Francisco to set_up the legal framework , finally and at_last , to rationalize war - to rationalize want and fear - out of the world : the United_Nations .

Related terms

structure

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