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Assuming you mean "inertial" frame of reference... it is any point of observation from which other objects appear to be still or in motion relative to you.

For example... On an airplane flying at 35,000 feet. All the other passengers appear to you to be sitting in their seats or walking down the aisle at a leisurely pace... If you tossed a ball in the air, it would appear to go straight up and fall back into your hand...

To someone on the ground, you and all your fellow passengers seem to be hurtling thru the sky at 500 mph. And the path the ball follows is not straight up or down.

You and your fellow passengers share the same inertial frame of reference.

In a similar sense, the earth under your feet appears to be still and all the objects seem to move or not move in relation to the still earth.

In fact the earth is spinning... beyond that it is revolving around the sun, beyond that the entire solar system is moving in a galaxy that is, itself spinning, and the entire galaxy is also moving thru a universe that is expanding...

Each of these are other inertial frames of reference.

Einstein's theory of relativity states that none of these frames of reference is preferred... and that all observations, including those relating to time, dimension and speed, are entirely relative to one's inertial frame of reference.

Thus different observers in different frames of reference perceive things differently.

because even time varies with frame of reference, this renders such concepts as simultaneity specious.

If time itself passes at different rates for different observers, then no two events can actually be said to happen at the same time.

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