Framing

This article is about "Framing" as a general term. For "Framed" as a proper name, see Framed.

Framing or enframing may refer to:

• Framing (construction), the most common carpentry work
• Framing (social sciences) or Framing effect (psychology), terminology used in communication theory, sociology, and other disciplines where it relates to the construction and presentation of a fact or issue "framed" from a particular perspective
• Framing (visual arts), a technique used to bring the focus to the subject
• Framing (World Wide Web), where it relates to the use of multiple panes within a web page
• Framing device, a narrative tool in which the setting of a story or another element is repeated at the beginning and end of a story
• "Framing punch", a punch in boxing
• In mathematics, a manifold is framed if the tangent bundle is stably trivial
• Frameup, the incrimination of a scapegoat in place of the perpetrator of a crime
• Picture frame
• Verb framing, a concept in linguistics
• Enframing or Gestell, part of Heidegger's account of technology

Telecommunications

In telecommunication, the term framing has the following related meanings:

• In time-division multiplexing reception, it is a synonym for frame synchronization.
• In packet mode Data Link Layer standards, is synonymous to frame format, inclusive of frame synchronization.
• In video reception, the process of adjusting the timing of the receiver to coincide with the received video vertical and horizontal synchronization pulses.
• In facsimile, the adjustment of the facsimile picture to a desired position in the direction of scan line progression.
• On a web page, framing means that a website can be organized into frames.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188