Framework provides a collection of objects designed to aid in writing C++ applications. Its features include: a unit testing framework, smart pointers, exceptions with stack traces, value-safe conversions, markup reading, XML writing, and support for mul

Framework aims to be a lightweight PHP web application development framework. Its goal is to abstract common web application needs in order to allow apps to share common resources

Provides a unified view of the needs and functionality of a particular service or application thus allowing a coherent approach to the specification of protocols and protocol elements as needed to realize the implementation of the service or application.

any reusable, class library that implements a nontrivial set of capabilities capturing one or more specification, design, code, or test patterns.

The XML structures that supports metadata concepts, content and controlled vocabularies.

a narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel

defines the technological basis, or the underlying structure supporting or containing something. FTF

1) A supporting structure around which something can be built. 2) A basic form or outline. 3) A set of ideas, conditions, or assumptions that determine how something will be approached, perceived, or understood (frame of reference).

Foundation upon which a company may build their current and future communications infrastructure. Usually consists of a set of components that work together to solve a business problem.

Integrated set of policies and procedures designed to assist management to achieve its goals and objectives.

a combined static/dynamic approach to worst-case schedulability analysis of real-time task-sets

a set of common and prefabricated software building blocks that programmers can use, extend or customize for specific computing solutions

In a web context, a (rapid development) framework is an application or set of scripts that speeds development of websites. For example, the .Net framework for ASP.Net, Django for Python, Rails for Ruby, Struts for Java and Cake for PHP.

a development tool, requiring someone with programming skills

a fantastic tool especially when coding with others -- in such situations, maintaining code somebody else wrote isn't a jolt when you first open it, but instantly familiar

a set of new tools designed to make cross-platform development simple

an associative network of interdependent objects implementing the underlying information model

an excellent way to hide hardness so I don't have to look at it

a procedure and the methods are the ways an appraisal might be undertaken

a way for a consultant to bill more time to a project

A blueprint of curriculum content and student learning objectives for a specific course of study.

California curriculum frameworks describe and define the content and instructional program teachers are expected to deliver within a content area at each grade level.

a general guide to be followed in carrying out some process

a guide to aid teachers, community members, and school administrators in curriculum and program development

The bare branches or skeleton of a tree or shrub

A metal skeleton of a removable partial denture to support the false teeth and the plastic attachments.

A skeleton that provides the essential components of an application. Frameworks are good for providing a starting point for creating applications as well as defining the minimum functionality of an application.

A set of illustrated HTML (HyperText Markup Language) text files that serve as the collection home page or home page group. The framework is so named because it provides an intellectual frame for the collection and embraces the other collection elements.

a reaffirmation of the international community's collective commitment to ensure that basic learning needs of every child

A formed mental pattern that can be used to sort out and relate a variety of elements in human experience that fit into that pattern. This may include related experiences the human has never seen before in precisely the same form. This is a blueprint for awareness clusters, which may simply enable the human to make sense of what they perceive, or it may include basic procedures for acting in such a situation. For example, one common framework for city dwellers embraces the normal features, objectives, and procedures for crossing a city street at a traffic light. Another includes all of the details required to go into a restaurant to order a meal.

A template containing a sequenced set of all groups/segments which relate to a functional business area (or multi-functional business area) and applying to all messages defined for that area (or areas). [TRADE/WP.4/R.633

an environment built to reduce development costs, maintenance costs, and implementation costs

a template for the implementation of a particular function (similar to a shell program)

a component that interacts autonomously with other services either through dynamic proxies or via agents that use self-describing protocols

an object oriented description of the components that make up a system and how they are connected

The components of a project which collectively describe or define how the work will be accomplished.

an environment composed of a supervisor and one or several teams of software agents

a skeletal group of software modules that may be tailored for building domain specific

A Skeletal software component that performs functions required by a system and which is incorporated into the design of such systems.