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Framework

A framework is a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues. This very broad definition has allowed the term to be used as a buzzword

Buzzword

A buzzword is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker's pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and question, because the buzzword does not mean what it denomi...
, especially in a software context.

Framework can also refers to mechanical structures, such as scaffolding

Scaffolding

Scaffolding is a temporary framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures....
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nceptual framework is used in research to outline possible courses of action or to present a preferred and reliable approach to an idea or thought.

ftware framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem).

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A framework is a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues. This very broad definition has allowed the term to be used as a buzzword

Buzzword

Scaffolding

Scaffolding is a temporary framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures....
.

Conceptual framework

A conceptual framework is used in research to outline possible courses of action or to present a preferred and reliable approach to an idea or thought.

Software framework

A software framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem). A software framework

Software framework

A software framework, in computer programming, is an abstraction in which common code providing generic functionality can be selectively overridden or specialized by user code providing specific functionality....
may include support programs, code libraries

Library (computer science)

In computer science, a library is a collection of subroutines or Class used to develop software. Libraries contain code and data that provide services to independent programs....
, a scripting language

Scripting language

A scripting language, script language or extension language, is a programming language that allows some control of a single or many Application software....
, or other software to help develop and glue together the different components of a software project. Various parts of the framework may be exposed through an API

Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a set of subroutine, data structures, class and/or Protocol provided by library and/or operating system Service s in order to support the building of applications....
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Office suite

Framework, launched in 1984, was the first office suite

Office suite

In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office software suite or productivity suite is a collection of programs intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers....
to run on the original IBM PC under the MS-DOS operating system.

Buzzword

The word framework is used as a buzzword

Buzzword

A buzzword is a vague idiom, usually a neologism, that is common to managerial, technical, administrative, and political work environments. Although meant to impress the listener with the speaker's pretense to knowledge, buzzwords render sentences opaque, difficult to understand and question, because the buzzword does not mean what it denomi...
, in a variety of contexts. For example, the Java collections framework

Java collections framework

JCF redirects here and can also stand for Jordan normal form in Linear AlgebraThe Java programming language collections framework is a coupled set of class and interface ...
is not a software framework

Software framework

Literature

The word framework is sometimes used to refer to the literary technique

Literary technique

A literary technique or literary device is an identifiable rule of thumb, convention or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling....
of the frame story

Frame story

A frame story is a narrative technique whereby an introductory main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of setting the stage for a fictive narrative or organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story....
or framing device

Framing device

The term framing device refers to the usage of the same single action, scene, event, setting, or any element of significance at both the beginning and end of an artistic, musical, or literary work....
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Scaffolding

Scaffolding is a temporary framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures....
is a temporary framework used to support people and material in the construction

Construction

In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of multitasking....
or repair of buildings and other large structures.