A Frame
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structure of a person's body; the human body.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- (bowling)
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (engineering, dated, chiefly UK) Any of certain machines built upon or within framework.
- (dated) Frame of mind; disposition.
- (obsolete) Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming.
- (dated, video games) A stage or location in a video game.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
Quotations
- 1696, William Stephens, An Account of the Growth of Deism in England, page 17:
...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame...