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Definition of Frame of reference
1. Noun. A system that uses coordinates to establish position.
Generic synonyms: Arrangement, Organisation, Organization, System
Specialized synonyms: Cartesian Coordinate System, Inertial Frame, Inertial Reference Frame, Space-time, Space-time Continuum
Terms within: Coordinate Axis
2. Noun. A system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning.
Definition of Frame of reference
1. Noun. a set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated ¹
2. Noun. (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 ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frame Of Reference
Literary usage of Frame of reference
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theoretical Mechanics: An Introductory Treatise on the Principles of by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1897)
"We shall now illustrate and enforce this theory by considering the choice of the
origin and of the lines of reference of a frame of reference. ..."
2. Theoretical Mechanics: An Introductory Treatise on the Principles of by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1897)
"We shall now illustrate and enforce this theory by considering the choice of the
origin and of the lines of reference of a frame of reference. ..."
3. Relativity, the Electron Theory, and Gravitation by Ebenezer Cunningham (1921)
"in the particular problem which we are considering, namely, the failure of
experiment to determine uniquely the frame of reference which we call the ..."
4. The Grammar of Science by Karl Pearson (1900)
"introduce other corpuscles, in order to determine a " frame of reference " (p.
208). Such a frame of reference can be placed at once in conceptual space and ..."
5. An Elementary Treatise on Theoretical Mechanics by James Hopwood Jeans (1907)
"MOVING frame of reference An acceleration of this smallness could easily be
measured; for instance, the heavier mass would only descend eight feet in ten ..."
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