實體上沒有被固定
這一組就是核心畫面本身：撐著它的東西是牆、支架或框架。
adjective · B2
Standing on its own, without being fixed to a wall, a frame, or any other support. A freestanding thing holds itself up, and you can usually move it somewhere else.
獨立式的、不靠牆的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a thing standing in the middle of the floor with nothing behind it and nothing under it. Take away the wall, the bracket, the frame — it is still upright. Because nothing is holding it, you could also carry it somewhere else and it would be just as complete there. Every use of freestanding is that same check: is anything holding this up, or does it stand by itself?
freestanding 的畫面可以想成：一樣東西就站在地板中間，後面沒有牆，底下沒有架子。把牆、支架、框架都拿掉，…更多收起
freestanding 的畫面可以想成：一樣東西就站在地板中間，後面沒有牆，底下沒有架子。把牆、支架、框架都拿掉，它照樣站著。也因為沒有東西固定它，你把它搬到別的地方，它一樣是完整的。這個字每一種用法其實都在做同一個檢查——有沒有東西在撐著它？還是它自己就站得住？From the word’s history
The source gives the word as free + standing. Free here is the sense of not being tied to anything, and standing is being upright, so the compound is literally standing without being tied to something else.
字源資料直接寫 freestanding 是 free 加 standing。free 在這裡不是「免費」，而是「沒有被綁住」；standing 是「站著的狀態」。合起來字面就是「沒被綁住地站著」。這個字面意思幾乎就是它今天的全部用法，只是「被綁住」的對象從牆變成了制度、論點或作業系統。
Wiktionary (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:688745994:14980): "From free + standing"
Two branches
不依附在更大的東西底下
同一個檢查，換成看不見的支撐：撐著它的不再是牆，而是一套學程、一家醫院集團、一個前提，或一套作業系統。
adjective · C1
Able to exist or work on its own, and not only as a part of something bigger. A freestanding course, unit, clinic or argument is complete in itself.
可單獨存在的、獨立的