# Frame

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
### In building construction

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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 frame, in differential geometry
** Frame bundle, a principal fiber bundle associated with any vector bundle
* Frames and locales, in order theory
* Sampling frame, a set of items or events possible to measure (statistics)

## Computing and telecommunications
### In displays

* Frame (GUI), a box used to hold other widgets in a graphical user interface
* Film frame, one of the many single photographic images in a motion picture
* Photographic film frame, one of the many segments recorded in a photographic film
* Frame rate, the number of frames—or images—displayed on screen per unit of time, usually expressed in frames per second (FPS)
* Framing (World Wide Web), a method of displaying multiple HTML documents on one page of a web browser
** Iframes, a frame element in HTML code

### Software

* Adobe FrameMaker, a desktop publishing application
* Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in designed for Internet Explorer
* Software framework

### Other uses in computing and telecommunications

* Frame (artificial intelligence), machine-usable formalizations of concepts or schemata that can be used for knowledge representation
* Frame (networking), a data transmission unit or network packet that includes frame synchronization information
* Distribution frame, in telecommunications
* Mainframe computer
* Page frame, an available chunk of memory
* Stack frame, a part of a call stack
* A data structure in frame languages
* Frame problem, in artificial intelligence
* Framing, the application of networking frames using frame synchronization
* Frame technology (software engineering), a models-to-code system based on adaptable frames

## Other sciences

* Filters, random fields, and maximum entropy model (FRAME), in physics and probability
* Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
* Frame Overo, a coat pattern in horses
* Hive frame, a structural element that holds honeycomb
* Reading frame, which divides a sequence of nucleotides into a set of consecutive, non-overlapping triplets
* Frameshift mutation, when a single base-pair is added to a DNA string, causing incorrect transcription
* Frame analysis, a social science research method used to analyze how people understand situations and activities
* FRAMES, methods of brief intervention against alcohol misuse
* Framing (social sciences), in communication theory and sociology, relating to the contextual presentation of media content

## Arts and media
### Film and television

* "Frame" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2008 episode of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
* The Frame (film), a 2014 American science fiction film
* Frames Production, an Indian multifaceted production company

### Literature

* Frame story, a narrative technique, for telling stories within a story
* Frame (design magazine), a design magazine from the Netherlands
* Frame (1971–1990), a book of collected poetry by Barrett Watten, published in 1997

### Music

* The Frames, an Irish band
* Frames (Oceansize album), a 2007 album by Oceansize
* Frames (Leee DeWyze album), a 2013 album by Leee DeWyze

### Visual arts

* The Frame (painting), by Frida Kahlo

## Other uses

* Frame, in the game of snooker
* Frame, in the game of bowling
* Frame, in the game of baseball
* Frame (dance), either of two concepts in partner dancing
* Frame (surname)
* Frame, West Virginia, an unincorporated community, United States
* Frame of government, a descriptive term synonymous with constitution
** Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, the first colonial constitution of Pennsylvania, written by William Penn
** Delegates to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention, are sometimes called the "Framers," as they were framing a form of government
* Frameup, to make an innocent party appear guilty of someone else's crime
* French Regional & American Museums Exchange (FRAME), an alliance of French and American art museums
* Frame (psychotherapy)
* Dubai Frame, a building in Dubai, UAE