Frame
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A frame is a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction.
Frame and FRAME may also refer to:
Engineering & construction
- A-Frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
- A-Frame house, a house following the same principle
- Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
- Motorcycle frame, main component of a motorcycle, onto which other components are fitted
- 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 (aircraft), structural rings in an aircraft fuselage
- Frame (loudspeaker) or basket, a structural component which supports the functional components of a loudspeaker
- Frame (nautical), skeleton of a ship
- Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
- Vehicle frame, to which everything on an automobile is mounted
- Framer, a carpenter who assembles major structural elements in constructing a building
- Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction
- Lever frame, a railway signalling device containing interlocks for signals, points (railroad switches) etc.
- Locomotive frame, section on engine frames
- The frame or receiver, one of the basic parts of a modern firearm
- Space frame, a method of construction using lightweight materials
- Timber framing, a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber
- A synonym for a Rack, used for example to hold the components of a mainframe computer
General
- Frame as a synonym for the human body, especially in poetic context
- Bed frame
- Climbing frame, a children's attraction in parks
- Distribution frame in telecommunications
- Eyeglass frame
- Frame, for definition of terms "frames" in games: bowling and snooker
- Frame (surname)
- Hive frame, a structural element that holds honeycomb
- Frame (dance), a connection between lead and follow in partner dancing
- Frame (magazine), design magazine from the Netherlands
- Framing (social sciences), terminology used in communication theory and sociology, where it relates to the contextual presentation of media content
- Frame tale, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story
- Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime
- Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
- Spinning frame
- Water frame
Science
- FRAME Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
- Frame Overo, a coat pattern in horses
- Reading frame 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.
Mathematics
- Basis, an ordered basis is also called a "frame"
- Frame bundle, in mathematics is a principal fiber bundle associated with any vector bundle
- Frame of reference, the set of coordinates in which a system is observed
- Frame of a vector space, a generalization of a basis to sets of possibly linearly dependent vectors which also satisfy the frame condition
- Frames and locales, in order theory
- K-frame, a generalization of a basis to linearly independent sets of vectors that need not span the space
- Moving frame, in differential geometry
- Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
- Projective frame, in projective geometry
- Sampling frame, a set of items or events possible to measure (statistics)
Computer science
- Frame (artificial intelligence), machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation
- Frame (GUI), a box used to hold other widgets in a graphical user interface
- A data structure in frame languages
- Frame (networking), a data transmission unit or network packet that includes frame synchronization information
- Frame problem, in artificial intelligence
- Frame rate, the number of frames—or images—displayed on screen per unit of time, usually expressed in frames per second (FPS)
- framing, the application of networking frames using Frame synchronization
- Frame Technology (software engineering), a models-to-code system based on adaptable frames
- 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
- Iframes, a
- Stack frame, a part of a call stack
- Page frame, available chunk of memory
Software
- Adobe FrameMaker, a desktop publishing application
- Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in designed for Internet Explorer
- Software framework
Arts and media
- E-frame, in the animated science fiction series Exosquad
- Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
- Frame (1971–1990), a book of collected poetry by Barrett Watten, published in 1997
- Frames (Oceansize album), a 2007 album by Oceansize
- Frames (Lee DeWyze album), a 2013 album by Lee DeWyze
- Frame (journal), a literary journal from the Netherlands
- "Frame" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2008 episode of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
- Reframing (filmmaking), in film and programming
- The Frames, an Irish rock band
See also
- French Regional & American Museums Exchange
- Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
- Frame, West Virginia
- All pages beginning with "Frame"
- All pages with titles containing "Frame"
- Framing (disambiguation)
- X-frame (disambiguation)