reference frame
Origin of reference frame
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How to use reference frame in a sentence
Your brain moves through reference frames to recall facts that it has stored in different locations.
“We’ll never have true AI without first understanding the brain” | Will Heaven | March 3, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewAt the proper instant I shifted again, to the reference frame of this Galaxy itself.
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Scientific definitions for reference frame
[ rĕf′ər-əns ]
A basis of a four-dimensional coordinate system in which the first coordinate is understood as a time coordinate, while the other three coordinates represent spatial dimensions. Inertial frames and non-inertial frames are both examples of reference frames. Also called frame of reference See also General Relativity space-time Special Relativity.
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