Frame Explained
A frame is often a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction and/or steel frame that limits the construction's extent.
Frame and FRAME may also refer to:
Physical objects
In building construction
- Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction
- Framer, a carpenter who assembles major structural elements in constructing a building
- A-frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
- Door frame or window frame, fixed structures to which the hinges of doors or windows are attached
- Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
- Space frame, a method of construction using lightweight or light materials
- Timber framing, a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber or willow wood
In vehicles
Other physical objects
- Frame (loudspeaker) or basket, a structural component which supports the functional components of a loudspeaker
- Bed frame, the part of a bed used to position the mattress and base
- Climbing frame or jungle gym, a piece of equipment for children's play
- Eyeglass frame
- Lever frame, a railway signalling device containing interlocks for signals, points (railroad switches) etc.
- Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
- Receiver (firearms) or frame, one of the basic parts of a modern firearm
- Spinning frame, an invention of the Industrial Revolution for spinning thread or yarn from fibre such as wool or cotton
- Water frame, a water-powered spinning frame which was an easy way to create cotton
- Frame (beekeeping), a wooden frame designed to hold an area of honeycomb in a Langstroth-type beehive
Mathematics and physics
- Generally speaking, a structure that defines a coordinate system
- Frame of reference, in physics, a set of reference points that define a coordinate system
- Frame, another name for an ordered basis of a vector space
- Frame (linear algebra), a generalization of a basis to sets of possibly linearly dependent vectors which also satisfy the frame condition
- k-frame, a generalization of a basis to linearly independent sets of vectors that need not span the space
- Affine frame, in an affine space and, in particular, in a Euclidean space
- Projective frame, in projective geometry
- Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
- Moving frame, in differential geometry
- Frame bundle, a principal fiber bundle associated with any vector bundle
- Frames and locales, in order theory
- Sampling frame, a set of items or events possible to measure (statistics)
Computing and telecommunications
In displays
- Frame (GUI), a box used to hold other widgets in a graphical user interface
- Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
- Photographic film frame, one of the many segments recorded in a photographic film
- Frame rate, the number of frames - or images - displayed on screen per unit of time, usually expressed in frames per second (FPS)
- Framing (World Wide Web), a method of displaying multiple HTML documents on one page of a web browser
- Iframes, a
frame element in HTML code
Software
Other uses in computing and telecommunications
Other sciences
- Filters, random fields, and maximum entropy model (FRAME), in physics and probability
- Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
- Frame Overo, a coat pattern in horses
- Hive frame, a structural element that holds honeycomb
- Reading frame, which divides a sequence of nucleotides into a set of consecutive, non-overlapping triplets
- Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription
- Frame analysis, a social science research method used to analyze how people understand situations and activities
- FRAMES, methods of brief intervention against alcohol misuse
- Framing (social sciences), in communication theory and sociology, relating to the contextual presentation of media content
Arts and media
Film and television
- "Frame" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2008 episode of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- The Frame (film), a 2014 American science fiction film
- Frames Production, an Indian multifaceted production company
Literature
Music
Visual arts
Other uses
- Frame, in the game of snooker
- Frame, in the game of bowling
- Frame, in the game of baseball
- Frame (dance), either of two concepts in partner dancing
- Frame (surname)
- Frame, West Virginia, an unincorporated community, United States
- Frame of government, a descriptive term synonymous with constitution
- Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime
- French Regional & American Museums Exchange (FRAME), an alliance of French and American art museums
- Frame (psychotherapy)
- Dubai Frame, a building in Dubai, UAE
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