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Noun
: a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated the Freudian paradigm of psychoanalysis; broadly : a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind
Short
a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
Verb:
to get along by indirect methods; use any expediency, trick, or evasion to get along or succeed:
Noun:
a change or transfer from one place, position, direction, person, etc., to another: