It has been applied with increasing generality to suggest the internal framework discernible in any technology system or business organization.

Picking up the plane, I studied the internal framework of the chest for a long time, knowing that something was not quite right.

Infrastructure (internal framework) - poor electricity, telecommunications, fresh water supply.

A group's structure is the internal framework that defines members' relations to one another over time.

Hurst Frame An internal framework supporting the gears and millstones.

This internal framework is termed the endoskeleton and its individual parts are known as apodemes or phragmata.

These are held together by an internal framework of radiating spokes, which connect the egg's "shell."

These platforms were supported by strong internal wooden framework to transmit the forces of firing the weapons to the hull.

The ramparts themselves were of earth, but were timber-faced and had an internal wooden framework to give additional strength.

A blimp is an airship without an internal supporting framework or keel.