Frame

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

Frame may also refer to:

Engineering & construction

• Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction
• Frame (vehicle), to which everything on an automobile is mounted
• Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
• Timber framing, a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber
• A-frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
  • A-Frame house, a house following the same principle
• Space frame, a method of construction using lightweight materials
• Framer, a carpenter who assembles major structural elements in constructing a building.
• Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
• Steam locomotive (chassis) section on engine frames
• 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.

General

• Frame (beehive), a structural element that holds honeycomb
• Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
• Spinning frame
• Water frame
• Frame (dance), a connection between lead and follow in partner dancing
• climbing frame; a children's attraction in parks
• Framing (social sciences), terminology used in communication theory and sociology, where it relates to the contextual presentation of media content
• Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime
• Frame tale, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story
• Glossary of cue sports terms#Frame, for definition of terms "frames" in games: bowling and snooker
• FRAME (magazine), design magazine from the Netherlands

Science & mathematics

• FRAME:S, therapeutic model focused on certain problems of youth
• Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription
• Frame of a vector space, a generalization of a basis to sets of linearly dependent vectors which also satisfy the frame condition
• Frame of reference, the set of coordinates in which a system is observed
• Sampling frame, a set of items or events possible to measure (statistics)
• Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
• Projective frame, in projective geometry
• Moving frame, in differential geometry
• Frames and locales, in order theory
• Frame bundle, in mathematics is a principal fiber bundle associated with any vector bundle.
• Basis (linear algebra), an ordered basis is also called a "frame"

Computer science

• Frame (telecommunications), a data-link layer Protocol data unit
• Stack frame, a part of a call stack
• Frame synchronization, receiving a stream of framed data. This is sometimes referred to as "framing".
• Framework, software
• 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
• Frame Technology (software engineering), a models-to-code system based on adaptable frames
• Frame Technology, a desktop publishing software company
• Frame (Artificial intelligence), in the field of Artificial Intelligence, frames are machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation.

Arts & media

• Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
• Reframing (film technique), in film and programming
• E-frame, in the animated science fiction series Exosquad
• The Frames, an Irish rock band.
• Frames (album), the third album by English rock band Oceansize

People

• Fred Frame
• Janet Frame
• John Frame
• John Frame (cricketer)
• Linley Frame
• Pete Frame
• Roddy Frame
• Tom Frame