Frame

A frame is a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction.

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
• Frame (vehicle), 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
• 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

General

• 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 (beehive), 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:S, therapeutic model focused on certain problems of youth
• Frame Overo, a coat pattern in horses
• Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription

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
• Stack frame, a part of a call stack

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 (album), the seventh album by Italian progressive speed metal band DGM
• Frame (1971–1990), a book of collected poetry by Barrett Watten, published in 1997
• Frames (album), a 2007 album by Oceansize
• 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

People

• Billy Frame (1912–1992), Scottish footballer
• Fred Frame (1894–1962)
• Janet Frame (1924–2004)
• John Frame (philosopher) (born 1939)
• John Frame (cricketer) (1733–1796)
• Linley Frame (born 1971)
• Pete Frame (born 1942)
• Roddy Frame (born 1964)
• Tom Frame (1931–2006)

See also

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