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reference frame

n.

See frame of reference.

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reference frame  (rfr-ns)

A basis of a four-dimensional coordinate system in which the first coordinate is understood as a time coordinate, while the other three coordinates represent spatial dimensions. Inertial frames and non-inertial frames are both examples of reference frames. Also called frame of reference. See also General Relativityspace-timeSpecial Relativity

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reference frame - a system that uses coordinates to establish position coordinate system, frame of reference, reference system organization, arrangement, organisation, system - an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" Cartesian coordinate system - a coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the system coordinate axis - one of the fixed reference lines of a coordinate system inertial frame, inertial reference frame - a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid space-time, space-time continuum - the four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are located