Frame of reference
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
- 2 a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning wordnet
- 3 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.
- 4 a system that uses coordinates to establish position wordnet
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More examples"Anyone with an unsubverted or cleansed frame of reference likely couldn't bear seeing such mistreatment and violence."