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Definitions

frame of reference

NOUN
standards for judging or deciding
Synonyms
WEAK
context coordinate system framework reference frame reference system standpoint universe of discourse

Example Sentences

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Today’s lawmakers looking for a frame of reference may want to read up on the efforts to regulate a questionable trading platform of an earlier era, the “bucket shop.”

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

This is rocking Britain in a way Americans may struggle to fathom if their frame of reference is U.S. public broadcasting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

I didn’t know how much I was learning because I had no frame of reference for any of it.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025

"I had no frame of reference of what I was getting myself into," Lawrence, 28, told BBC Sport.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2024

They seem to have no mathematical frame of reference and no basic understandings on which to build.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos