Frame
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A frame or framework is a structural system or a skeleton that supports other components of the object.
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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
- 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
frameelement in HTML
- HTML frame, the
- 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
[edit] See also
- The Frames, an Irish rock band
- A Frames, Seattle rock band on the Subpop recording label
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