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Definition of frame

A space, shown onscreen as a box, that contains a particular element of your publication.

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Other definitions of frame

In synchronous communications, a package of information transmitted as a single unit. Every frame follows the same basic organization and contains control information, such as synchronizing characters, station address, and an error-checking value, as well as a variable amount of data.

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One of many sequential images that make up video or animation.

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An independent section on a webpage. Each frame is actually a separate webpage and can have its own scrollbars.

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In asynchronous serial communications, a unit of transmission that is sometimes measured in elapsed time and begins with the start bit that precedes a character and ends with the last stop bit that follows the character.

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A packet of data including start and end of frame delimiters.

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An HTML feature that allows web designers to segment the window of a web browser into distinct sections.

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refers to a single image, the smallest compositional unit of a film's structure, captured by the camera on a strip of motion picture film - similar to an individual slide in still photography; a series of frames juxtaposed and shown in rapid succession make up a motion (or moving) picture; also refers to the rectangular area within which the film image is composed by the film-maker - in other words, a frame is what we see (within the screen); see fps and framing below.

Film Terms