The term framing can have several possible meanings:

• framing (telecommunication), where it relates to synchronization
• framing (economics), where it relates to rational choice theory
• framing (World Wide Web), where it relates to the use of multiple panes within a web page
• framing (communication theory), where it relates to the contextual presentation of media content
• framing (construction), the most common work of the carpentry trade.
• a frame-up, the incrimination of a scapegoat in place of the perpetrator of a crime