Frame of reference

noun

Definitions

1.nounA 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.nounA set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.

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