A-frame Definition

āfrām
noun
A structure, such as a house, with steeply angled sides that meet at the top in the shape of the letter A.
American Heritage
A structure with such a framework.
Webster's New World

An architectural structure, in the shape of an "A", having two straight sides meeting at the top.

Wiktionary
adjective
Designating or of a structural framework, as of a house, with steeply angled sides meeting at the top like the sides of the letter A.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of A-frame

Noun

Singular:
A-frame
Plural:
a-frames

A-frame Sentence Examples

  • The relief is in some instances enclosed in a frame of figures and scenes in relief.

  • After two hours' exposure, it is wrapped round a frame supported in a given position relative to Elster and Geitel's dissipation apparatus, and the loss of charge is noted.

  • Delegates to a constitutional convention accordingly drafted a frame of government, which on the lath of January 1864 was submitted to a popular vote and overwhelmingly defeated.

  • And they are in too defeatist a frame of mind to think positively.

  • Such a frame as this cannot be self-strained.

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