A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game
A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted
You can refer to someone's body as their frame, especially when you are describing the general shape of their body. Their belts are pulled tight against their bony frames
that on which anything is held or stretched The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels
A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings
The list of all the units in the population Before selecting the sample, the population must be divided into parts that are called sample units, or units These units must cover the whole of the population and they must not overlap, in the sense that every element in the population belongs to one and only one unit In tax compliance auditing we call the frame all sales invoices written over the audit period, or we could only include in the frame sales invoices which were claimed as exempt sales It is critical to define the frame before we sample The sample frame may not always include all the items in the population, as where items are missing or otherwise not available for selection Unless the difference between the frame and the population data are negligible, the sample results may not be sufficiently representative of the population
An area of a Web browser window defined by a frames page A frame appears in a Web browser as one of a number of different areas in which pages can be displayed A frame may be scrollable and resizable, and may have a border You display a page in a frame by creating a hyperlink to the page and specifying the frame as part of the hyperlink See also frames page
In games: (a) In pool, the triangular form used in setting up the balls; also, the balls as set up, or the round of playing required to pocket them all; as, to play six frames in a game of 50 points
A term for the unit of data transferred on a LAN; it is something larger than a cell, i e depending on the type of LAN, hundreds or thousands of bytes long (any particular type of LAN will have a limit on the frame size, e g Ethernet's 1500 byte/octet limit) Roughly equivalent to the term packet, but "frame" is a LAN term whereas "packet" is a term used for higher level protocols such TCP/IP, IPX, and AppleTalk
The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering
Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements
Datalink layer "packet" that contains the header and trailer information required by the physical medium That is, network layer packets are encapsulated to become frames See also: datagram, encapsulation, packet