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Definition of Reference frame
1. Noun. A system that uses coordinates to establish position.
Generic synonyms: Arrangement, Organisation, Organization, System
Specialized synonyms: Cartesian Coordinate System, Inertial Frame, Inertial Reference Frame, Space-time, Space-time Continuum
Terms within: Coordinate Axis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reference Frame
Literary usage of Reference frame
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collected Papers in Physics and Engineering by James Thomson (1912)
"From observations or measurements on successive simultaneous configurations of
the set of points merely, to find a reference-frame relatively to which their ..."
2. Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation: A Selection of Material by James Malcolm Bird, Albert Einstein (1921)
"If, for any reason, we prefer to use a new material reference-frame the coordinates
or ... But which particular material reference-frame shall we use? ..."
3. Einstein's Theories of Relativity and Gravitation: A Selection of Material by James Malcolm Bird, Albert Einstein (1921)
"If, for any reason, we prefer to use a new material reference-frame the coordinates
or ... But which particular material reference-frame shall we use? ..."
4. Volcanic Ash and Aviation Safety: Proceedings of the First International edited by T. J. Casadevall (1995)
"These ranges and the ephemerides of the satellites are used to estimate the
receiver's position vector in an Earth-centered reference frame and the offset ..."
5. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1885)
"This statement looks puzzling; but to bring out the truth more clearly, let us
imagine a reference frame founded on two or more straight lines extending out ..."
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