frame of reference

English

Noun

frame of reference (plural frames of reference)

1. A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.

   Anyone with an unsubverted or cleansed frame of reference likely couldn't bear seeing such mistreatment and violence.

   • 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347:

     When Kafka’s novels are analyzed with the autistic frame of reference in mind the behavior of his protagonists make more sense and will reveal that Kafka’s protagonists focus on external behavioral cues which are guided by Kafka’s education and mindset of a lawyer.

3. (physics) A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.

   Synonym: reference frame

Derived terms

• inertial frame of reference

Related terms

• relativity

Translations

set of assumptions, ideas and standards

Chinese: Mandarin: 理念 (zh) (lǐniàn) Dutch: denkraam (nl) n, referentiekader (nl) n Finnish: viitekehys (fi) German: Referenzrahmen m Italian: quadro di riferimento m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Polish: układ odniesienia m Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: cadru de referință n Russian: то́чка зре́ния (ru) f (tóčka zrénija), крите́рий (ru) m (kritɛ́rij) Spanish: please add this translation if you can

physics: set of axes

Armenian: հաշվարկի համակարգ (hašvarki hamakarg) Chinese: Mandarin: 參照系 / 参照系 (zh) (cānzhàoxì), 參考系 / 参考系 (zh) (cānkǎoxì) Czech: vztažná soustava f Finnish: koordinaatisto (fi), viitekehys (fi) French: repère (fr) m, référentiel (fr) m German: Bezugssystem (de) n, Bezugsrahmen (de) m Hindi: संदर्भ विन्यास m (sandarbh vinyās) Hungarian: vonatkoztatási rendszer (hu) Italian: sistema di riferimento m Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: 기준계(基準系) (gijun'gye) Polish: układ odniesienia m Portuguese: referencial (pt) m Romanian: sistem de referință (ro) n Russian: систе́ма отсчёта f (sistéma otsčóta) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: систе́ма ві́дліку f (systéma vídliku) Vietnamese: hệ quy chiếu

See also

• frame of reference on Wikipedia.Wikipedia