skeletal frame

Questions about skeletal frame

What does skeletal frame mean?

skeletal frame means "the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape".

What is another word for skeletal frame?

Close synonyms include skeleton, frame, underframe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skeletal frame a common word?

skeletal frame is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.