Frame

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

Frame may refer to:

[edit] Structure

• 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, subframe or chassis on which the carrossery of the automobile is mounted. See frame (vehicle).
• Frame (statics), a non-truss rigid body structure
• Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
• Flogging frame, a structure for supporting a victim of physical punishment, on which the position is adjusted to the anatomical aim, with or without restraints
• Spectacles frame, the structure that holds lenses in front of the eyes

In construction:

• A-frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
• Door frame, structure surrounding and supporting a door
• Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
• Space frame, a method of construction

In ship:

• Frame, a skeleton to support the hull planking or hull plating in shape by equal spacing apart. The frame usually are placed from bow to stern and connected with keel at bottom of the hull and deck beam at the top. The ship may get the transverse frame work system and longitudinal frame work system

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 link-level packet
• 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

[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
• Narrative frame, the context in which a story is told,

[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:

• Projective frame, in projective geometry
• orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
• Complete Heyting algebra, in order theory
• Frame of a vector space, a generalization of a basis to sets of linearly dependent vectors

In physics:

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

[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] See also

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

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