say it: FRAYM-wurk
framework is a noun meaning "a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
“the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems”
a structure supporting or containing something
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for framework come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.