Frame

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A frame or framework is a structural system or a skeleton that supports other components of the object.

Contents 1 Structure 2 Film and video 3 Computing and telecommunications 4 Law 5 Literature 6 Science 7 Psychology 8 Mechanical devices 9 People 10 Politics 11 Recreation 12 Fiction 13 See also

Frame may refer to:

[edit] Structure

• Door frame or window frame, structures fixed to buildings, vehicles or other containers to which the hinges of doors or windows are attached and can be locked shut.
• Frame (beehive), a structural element that holds honeycomb
• Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
• Body-on-frame, sub frame or chassis on which the carrossery of the automobile is mounted. See frame (vehicle)
• Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
• A-frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
• Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
• Space frame, a method of construction

The word also has many extended, metaphorical meanings in various fields:

[edit] Film and video

• Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
  • I-frames, P-frames, B-frames, D-frames, in video compression
• Reframing (film technique), in film and programming

[edit] Computing and telecommunications

• Data frame, a data-link layer PDU
• Stack frame, a part of a call stack
• a data structure in frame languages
• the frame problem in artificial intelligence
• Framing (World Wide Web), a method of displaying multiple HTML documents on one page
  • HTML frame, the frame element in HTML
• Frame Technology, a desktop publishing software company
• In the field of Artificial Intelligence, frames are machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation.

Roughly speaking, they are similar to the object-oriented paradigm where they represent classes (called frames) with certain properties called attributes or slots whereas they do not have methods.

[edit] Law

• Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime

[edit] Literature

• Frame tale, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story

[edit] Science

• Framing (communication theory), selective control over media content or public communication
• Framing (psychology), a method of providing categories and structure to thoughts

In mathematics:

• Ordered basis or Frame of a vector space, in linear algebra
• Projective frame, in projective geometry
• Moving frame, in differential geometry
• Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
• Complete Heyting algebra, in order theory

In physics:

• Frame of reference, the perspective from which a system is observed

In genetics:

• Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription

[edit] Psychology

• FRAME:S, therapeutic model focused on certain problems of youth
• Framing (psychology), a method of providing categories and structure to thoughts

[edit] Mechanical devices

In textile spinning, a device with many spindles:

• Spinning frame
• Water frame
• Dressing frame

[edit] People

• Fred Frame
• Janet Frame
• John Frame
• John Frame (cricketer)
• Linley Frame
• Pete Frame
• Roddy Frame
• Tom Frame

[edit] Politics

• political frame, cognitive science in politics

[edit] Recreation

• Frame (dance), a connection between lead and follow in partner dancing
• A turn in bowling games
• A complete game of snooker; a match usually comprises at least three frames
• A climbing frame; children attraction at parks

[edit] Fiction

• Exo-Frames (Exosquad)
• Knightmare Frames (Code Geass)

[edit] See also

• The Frames, an Irish rock band
• A Frames, Seattle rock band on the Subpop recording label