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Fresno, California
Fresno, California: largest city of California's Central Valley and fifth largest in the state, founded 1872 as a Central Pacific Railroad station, incorporated 1885, county seat of Fresno County, population about 555,000, economy anchored by leading national agricultural production.
Frete.com
Frete.com is a Brazilian digital road-freight marketplace and financial-services company formed in 2021 from CargoX, Fretebras, and FretePago, led by founder Federico Vega; it became a unicorn in November 2021.
Fretful Sleepers
"Fretful Sleepers" is a 1952 essay by New Zealand writer Bill Pearson, published in Landfall, criticizing conformity, puritanism, and anti-intellectualism in mid-twentieth-century New Zealand culture.
Fretilin
Fretilin (Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor) is a political party in Timor-Leste founded in 1974, which declared independence in 1975 and led resistance to Indonesian occupation.
Fretting
Fretting is micron-scale relative motion between nominally stationary surfaces in contact, caused by vibration or thermal cycling; it produces wear, corrosion, and fatigue life reduced to as little as one fifth.
Freud family
The Freud family, the Central European Jewish family of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): Galician-Moravian merchant origins, Vienna household with Martha Bernays, Minna Bernays, and six children, the 1938 flight to London, Holocaust losses, and the family's archives and museum legacy.
Freud's psychoanalytic theories
Freud's psychoanalytic theories: Sigmund Freud's theory of a dynamic unconscious, repression, id-ego-superego structure, psychosexual stages, dream interpretation, and free association; plus criticisms of unfalsifiability and its modern standing.
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is a German sealing manufacturer headquartered in Weinheim, known for the Simmerring radial shaft seal developed in 1932 and for supplying the automotive industry.
Freudian slip
Freudian slip (parapraxis): an unconscious error in speech, writing, memory, or action attributed by psychoanalytic theory to repressed impulses, from Freud's 1901 Psychopathology of Everyday Life; modern cognitive psychology explains most such errors as language-production failures.
Freundlich (lunar crater)
Freundlich is an IAU-adopted 83.16-km impact crater on the Moon's far side at 25.00°N, 170.89°E, namesake of the pre-Nectarian Freundlich-Sharonov basin.
Freundlich adsorption isotherm
The Freundlich adsorption isotherm is an empirical power-law equation relating the amount of a substance adsorbed per unit mass of adsorbent to its equilibrium concentration, introduced by Herbert Freundlich in 1906.
Frevo
Frevo is the fast, brass-led carnival music of Recife, Pernambuco, performed mainly during Carnival by martial bands and fanfares, together with its accompanying solo dance, the passo, recognized by UNESCO in 2012.
Frewaka
Fréwaka (from Irish fréamhacha, "roots") is a 2024 Irish-language folk horror film by Aislinn Clarke, the first horror film produced in Irish, about caregiver Shoo, Peig, and the Na Sídhe; premiered at Locarno 2024.
Frexit
Frexit: hypothetical French withdrawal from the European Union, a portmanteau of "France" and "exit" coined after Brexit. Promoted by Marine Le Pen and François Asselineau, it would proceed under Article 50 TEU; Le Pen abandoned it after her 2017 defeat.
Frey syndrome
Frey syndrome (auriculotemporal syndrome, gustatory hyperhidrosis): gustatory sweating and flushing from aberrant parasympathetic regeneration after auriculotemporal nerve injury, usually parotidectomy; described by Lucja Frey, 1923.
Freya (cat)
Freya (cat): a common cat name from Freyja, the Norse goddess who rode a cat-drawn chariot. Notable bearers include the 2019 Cats Protection "miracle kitten" and George Osborne's cat Freya.
Freya Allan
Freya Allan (born 2001) is a British actress known for playing Princess Ciri in Netflix's The Witcher (2019–2025) and Mae in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024); also Baghead and the upcoming Black Palace.
Freya Anderson
Freya Anderson is a British freestyle swimmer from Birkenhead, England, who won Olympic gold in the mixed 4x100m medley relay at Tokyo 2020 and holds eleven European titles.
Freya Leach
Freya Leach is an Australian conservative political commentator and director of the Centre for Youth Policy at the Menzies Research Centre. She was a Liberal Party candidate in 2023.
Freya Mavor
Freya Mavor (born 1993, Glasgow) is a Scottish actress, fluent in French, known for Mini McGuinness in Skins, and for The White Queen, Industry, The ABC Murders, and Marie Antoinette.
Freya Parks
Freya Parks (Freya Theodora Parks) is a British actress from London known for Amy Jessop in BBC's Here We Go, Fiona in This Town, Helen Burns in Jane Eyre (2011), and Hester in The School for Good and Evil (2022).
Freya Ridings
Freya Ridings, born 1994 in London, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose piano ballad Lost Without You hit UK Number 9 after Love Island; her albums are Freya Ridings (2019), Blood Orange (2023), and Mother of Pearl (2026).
Freya Skye
Freya Skye (born 2009) is an English pop singer and actress; UK Junior Eurovision 2022 entrant with "Lose My Head" (fifth place), Hollywood Records artist, Nova Bright in Disney's Zombies 4, debut EP stardust (2026).
Freya Skye discography
Freya Skye (born 2009), British pop singer and Zombies 4 actress on Hollywood Records: discography includes Junior Eurovision 2022 single Lose My Head, solo singles Someone to Love, Can't Fake It, silent treatment, debut EP stardust (2026), and bad taste (2026).
Freycinet National Park
Freycinet National Park: 16,803-ha national park on Tasmania's east coast, reserved 1916 and Tasmania's oldest alongside Mount Field, known for the Hazards granite range, Wineglass Bay, the Friendly Beaches, and about 287,000 annual visits.
Freydís Eiríksdóttir
Freydís Eiríksdóttir is a Norse woman of the Vinland voyages, daughter of Eirik the Red, known only from the two contradictory Vinland sagas: heroic defender in Erik's Saga, massacre plotter in the Greenlanders' Saga.
Freyellidae
Freyellidae, also called freyellid sea stars, is a family of deep-sea Brisingida asteroids named by Downey in 1986; monophyletic, about 47 species in 7 genera including Freyella, suspension-feeding at greater depths than other brisingids.
Freyja
Freyja (Frøya, Freja, Freya), foremost Vanir goddess of Norse mythology: love, fertility, war, death, seiðr; owns Brísingamen, takes half the slain to Fólkvangr, taught seiðr to the Æsir.
Freyja Montes
Freyja Montes: 579-km-wide mountain range on Venus at 74.1N, 333.8E, bordering Lakshmi Planum in Ishtar Terra; IAU-named 1979 for the Norse goddess; formed by underthrusting.
Freyr
Freyr (Old Norse 'Lord', anglicized Frey), Norse Vanir fertility god, son of Njörðr, brother of Freyja, owner of ship Skíðblaðnir and boar Gullinbursti, ancestor of the Swedish Ynglings, worshipped at Gamla Uppsala.