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A frame is often a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction and/or steel frame that limits the construction's extent.
Frame and FRAME may also refer to:
Physical objects
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In building construction
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- Framing (construction), a building term known as light frame construction
- Framer, a carpenter who assembles major structural elements in constructing a building
- A-frame, a basic structure designed to bear a load in a lightweight economical manner
- A-frame house, a house following the same principle
- Door frame or window frame, fixed structures to which the hinges of doors or windows are attached
- Frame and panel, a method of woodworking
- Space frame, a method of construction using lightweight or light materials
- Timber framing, a method of building for creating framed structures of heavy timber or willow wood
In vehicles
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- Frame (aircraft), structural rings in an aircraft fuselage
- Frame (nautical), the skeleton of a boat
- Bicycle frame, the main component of a bicycle, onto which other components are fitted
- Motorcycle frame, main component of a motorbike, onto which other components are fitted
- Locomotive frame, a structure that forms the backbone of a railway locomotive
- Vehicle frame, to which everything on an automobile is mounted
Other physical objects
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- Frame (loudspeaker) or basket, a structural component which supports the functional components of a loudspeaker
- Bed frame, the part of a bed used to position the mattress and base
- Climbing frame or jungle gym, a piece of equipment for children's play
- Eyeglass frame
- Lever frame, a railway signalling device containing interlocks for signals, points (railroad switches) etc.
- Picture frame, a solid border around a picture or painting
- Receiver (firearms) or frame, one of the basic parts of a modern firearm
- Spinning frame, an invention of the Industrial Revolution for spinning thread or yarn from fibre such as wool or cotton
- Water frame, a water-powered spinning frame which was an easy way to create cotton
- Frame (beekeeping), a wooden frame designed to hold an area of honeycomb in a Langstroth-type beehive
Mathematics and physics
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- Generally speaking, a structure that defines a coordinate system
- Frame of reference, in physics, a set of reference points that define a coordinate system
- Frame, another name for an ordered basis of a vector space
- Frame (linear algebra), a generalization of a basis to sets of possibly linearly dependent vectors which also satisfy the frame condition
- k-frame, a generalization of a basis to linearly independent sets of vectors that need not span the space
- Affine frame, in an affine space and, in particular, in a Euclidean space
- Projective frame, in projective geometry
- Orthonormal frame, in Riemannian geometry
- Moving frameFrame Tutorials:
Frame refers to a property of a UIView or an NSView in Objective-C. It is a 4-floating-point representation of the View\'s location in the parent view or window. ... Use the [frames] tag for HTML frames (not iframes).