Frame

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
  • A-frame house, a house following the same principle
• 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

• Frame (aircraft), structural rings in an aircraft fuselage
• Frame (nautical), the skeleton of a boat
• Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
  • Motorcycle frame, main component of a motorbike, onto which other components are fitted
• Locomotive frame, a structure that forms the backbone of a railway locomotive
• Vehicle frame, to which everything on an automobile is mounted

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

• Adobe FrameMaker, a desktop publishing application
• Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in designed for Internet Explorer
• Software framework

Other uses in computing and telecommunications

• Frame (artificial intelligence), machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation
• Frame (networking), a data transmission unit or network packet that includes frame synchronization information
• Distribution frame, in telecommunications
• Mainframe computer
• Page frame, an available chunk of memory
• Stack frame, a part of a call stack
• A data structure in frame languages
• Frame problem, in artificial intelligence
• Framing, the application of networking frames using frame synchronization
• Frame technology (software engineering), a models-to-code system based on adaptable frames

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

• Frame story, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story
• Frame (design magazine), a design magazine from the Netherlands
• Frame (1971–1990), a book of collected poetry by Barrett Watten, published in 1997

Music

• The Frames, an Irish band
• Frames (Oceansize album), a 2007 album by Oceansize
• Frames (Leee DeWyze album), a 2013 album by Leee DeWyze

Visual arts

• The Frame (painting), by Frida Kahlo

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
  • Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, the first colonial constitution of Pennsylvania, written by William Penn
  • Delegates to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention, are sometimes called the "Framers," as they were framing a form of government
• 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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Frame
• All pages with titles containing Frame
• Framework (disambiguation)
• Framing (disambiguation)
• X-frame (disambiguation)