frame vs gnomon

frame

noun
  • The outer circle of a cancellation mark. 

  • An independent chunk of data sent over a network. 

  • An individually scrollable region of a webpage. 

  • A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted. 

  • A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets. 

  • A context for understanding or interpretation. 

  • The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change. 

  • A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins. 

  • A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second. 

  • Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure. 

  • A piece of photographic film containing an image. 

  • A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants. 

  • An inning. 

  • A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence. 

  • 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 rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material. 

  • The structural elements of a building or other constructed object. 

  • The structure of a person's body; the human body. 

  • The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration. 

verb
  • Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border. 

  • Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements. 

  • To move. 

  • To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. 

  • To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. 

  • To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation. 

  • To position visually within a fixed boundary. 

  • To wash ore with the aid of a frame. 

  • Conspire to falsely incriminate a presumably innocent person. See frameup. 

  • To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. 

  • To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit). 

gnomon

noun
  • The index of the hour circle of a globe. 

  • A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. 

  • An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. 

  • An object such as a pillar used by an observer to calculate the meridian altitude of the sun (that is, the altitude of the sun when it reaches the observer's meridian), for the purpose of determining the observer's latitude. 

  • A number representing the increment between two figurate numbers (“numbers equal to the numbers of dots in geometric figures formed of dots”). 

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