Noun

(en noun)

(literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.

(figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.

(figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.

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These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.

(literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

Noun

(modalities)

the fact of being modal

(logic) the classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode

(linguistics) the inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood

(medicine) A method of diagnosis or therapy.

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Any of the senses (such as sight or taste)

(semiotics) a particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre

(theology) the organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations

(music) the subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes

(sociology) a concept in structuration theory