Framing

This page is about "Framing" as a general term. For "Framed" as a proper name, see Framed. For as a decorative edging for a picture, see Picture Frame.

Framing may refer to:

• Framing (crime), providing false evidence or false testimony in order to prove someone guilty of a crime falsely
• Framing (construction), the most common carpentry work
• Timber framing, the standard type of building framing until the mid-19th century
• 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
• Frame synchronization in telecommunications

Physics

• Frame of reference, a coordinate system used to represent and measure position and orientation of objects at a particular time
• Inertial frame of reference (also Galilean reference frame or inertial space), a frame of reference that describes time and space homogeneously, isotropically, and in a time-independent manner