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Meanings of frame of reference in English

Russian
система отсчёта
Portuguese
sistema de coordenadas
Spanish
referencial
Catalan
sistema de referència

A system that uses coordinates to establish position.

система отсчёта
Portuguese
referencial

A system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning.

referencial
Usage of frame of reference in English
1
Time has no meaning here, or at least no frame of reference.
Bedlam
2
And you only know which it is through your frame of reference.
News.com.au
3
He had no frame of reference for an eradication of this magnitude.
The First King of Shannara
4
Mother Mariette has a narrow frame of reference in regard to possession.
Pandemonium
5
Justice Douglas wrote the opinion from the following frame of reference:
The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
6
And in that frame of reference, some things were perfectly clear.
Cibola Burn
7
He's now using that frame of reference to think about COVID-19 class actions.
Reuters
8
In Owen's case, his preferred frame of reference is Disney movies.
Reuters
9
You pays your money and you takes your frame of reference.
The Forever War
10
The watch kept human time in an octospider frame of reference.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
11
He was impossible to categorise in their narrow frame of reference.
The Guardian
12
Time doesn't mean anything unless you have a frame of reference.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
13
Without a frame of reference, one way was no worse than the other.
Map of bones
14
They try to incorporate intimacy, but with no frame of reference.
BBC
15
Her lattice was not based on a fixed frame of reference.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
16
True, the adoption of an absolutist frame of reference serves many useful purposes.
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