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A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
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The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
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The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
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A basic conceptual structure.
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These ‘three principles of connexion’ compose the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
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A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
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The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.