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What is a frame of reference?

What is a frame of reference? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.
  2. (physics) A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.
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Our calendar recorded every housing move, which was then used by respondents as a frame of reference for dating other events.
She joked about their religious frame of reference but could not disguise her deep cultural pride.
Even if the cast entered this production without a cultural frame of reference, their performances prove that emotions are universal.
To label products on a conveyor, a target area for a given product conveyed on the conveyor is determined relative to a frame of reference.
We are scared and we are shaking and we are trying to put up a brave front, but we have no frame of reference for something like this.
Tons of people enjoy lurid palaver on an astonishingly wide variety of topics, and your specific frame of reference is not a bit rare.

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