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Frizzle Fry

Frizzle Fry is the 1990 debut studio album by Primus, released February 7, 1990 on Caroline Records; recorded at Different Fur, San Francisco, produced with Matt Winegar, featuring John the Fisherman and remastered in 2002 on Prawn Song.

Frizzo

Frizzo, real name Ferdinand Owusu-Ansah, is a Ghanaian-German DJ and producer from Düsseldorf who co-produced Haftbefehl's 2013 album Blockplatin before building an independent club music career on his label Bassheim.

Frndly TV

Frndly TV is an American subscription streaming service offering more than 50 live family-friendly channels, including Hallmark Channel, without a cable subscription, starting at $6.99 per month.

Froan Nature Reserve and Landscape Protection Area

Froan Nature Reserve and Landscape Protection Area (Froan naturreservat og landskapsvernområde) is a protected coastal archipelago in Frøya, Norway, established in 1979 and designated Ramsar site no. 809 in 1996.

Frobenius algebra

A Frobenius algebra is a finite-dimensional algebra over a field carrying a nondegenerate bilinear form compatible with multiplication, with examples including group algebras and matrix rings.

Frobenius coin problem

The Frobenius coin problem, also called the coin problem or money-changing problem, asks for the largest integer not expressible as a nonnegative combination of given coprime integers.

Frobenius group

A Frobenius group is a transitive permutation group in which no non-identity element fixes more than one point, studied by Georg Frobenius in 1900 and 1901 using his new theory of group characters.

Frobenius method

The Frobenius method, reported by Georg Frobenius in 1873, solves linear ordinary differential equations by power series and produces classical special functions such as Bessel and Legendre functions.

Frobenius norm

The Frobenius norm, also called the Hilbert-Schmidt norm, is a matrix norm defined as the square root of the sum of squared absolute entries, named for Ferdinand Georg Frobenius.

Frobenius reciprocity

Frobenius reciprocity is a theorem of representation theory stating that induction and restriction between a group and a subgroup are adjoint, introduced by Frobenius in 1898.

Frobenius theorem (real division algebras)

The Frobenius theorem is a result in abstract algebra stating that the only finite-dimensional associative division algebras over the real numbers are R, C, and the quaternions, proved by Ferdinand Georg Frobenius in 1877.

Frobisher Bay

Frobisher Bay is a large, fjord-like inlet on the southeast coast of Baffin Island, Canada. Its funnel shape concentrates some of the largest tides in the country.

Frocester

Frocester (Frowecestre) is a small Gloucestershire village, 10 miles south of Gloucester, known for the Frocester Court Roman villa, occupied from the Bronze Age through the fifth century AD.

Frock coat

The frock coat, also known as the Prince Albert coat, is a man's knee-length coat with full skirts, worn as the formal day coat of the Victorian era.

Froda (company)

Froda, also known as Froda AB, is a Stockholm-based Swedish fintech founded in 2015 that lends to small businesses directly and through partners like Visa.

Frode Andresen

Frode Andresen, Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier born 1973 in Rotterdam; Olympic relay gold 2002, sprint silver 1998, bronze 2006, nine World Championship medals, 15 World Cup wins, Egebergs Ærespris 2009.

Frode Estil

Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier (born 1972, Sørli i Lierne), 13 Olympic and World Championship medals 2001–2007 with six golds; 2002 Olympic pursuit gold shared with Alsgaard after Mühlegg's doping disqualification.

Frode Grytten

Frode Grytten (born 1960) is a Norwegian writer and journalist from Odda who writes mostly in Nynorsk; his collective novel Bikubesong (1999) won the Brage Prize and he won it again in 2023.

Frodo Baggins

Frodo Baggins, in Tolkien's invented language Maura Labingi, is the hobbit protagonist of The Lord of the Rings who bears the One Ring to its destruction.

Frog

Frogs (order Anura) are tailless amphibians comprising roughly 8,000 species, about 88% of all amphibian diversity, found on every continent except Antarctica and absent only from polar regions and deserts.

Frog and Toad

Frog and Toad are Arnold Lobel's anthropomorphic amphibian friends from his 1970–1979 Harper & Row four-book I Can Read series, honored with Caldecott and Newbery awards and adapted into a Tony-nominated Broadway musical and an Apple TV+ animated series.

Frog antimicrobial peptide, caerin-type, Litoria

Caerin 1 peptides (caerin 1.1, 1.9) are 22-25-residue cationic antimicrobial peptides from Australian Litoria tree frog skin, two-helix hinge structure, membrane-disrupting antibiotics also studied as HIV inhibitors and cancer immunotherapy enhancers.

Frog Boys (개구리소년)

Frog Boys (개구리소년): five Daegu elementary school boys, ages 9 to 13, who vanished on Mount Waryong on March 26, 1991 while hunting salamander eggs; about 320,000 personnel searched, remains were found in 2002 showing signs of murder, and the case remains unsolved.

Frog Lake Massacre

The Frog Lake Massacre was the killing of nine non-Native men at Frog Lake in present-day Alberta on April 2, 1885, by Cree warriors from Chief Big Bear's band during the North-West Rebellion.

Frog legs

Frog legs, the hind limbs of frogs eaten as food, are a French and Asian delicacy supplied by a global wild-harvest trade worth about US$40 million yearly, dominated by Indonesia and consumed mainly in the EU, especially France.

FROG-ICU study

The FROG-ICU study was a French and Belgian observational cohort study following ICU survivors for one year, finding that 21% died and that discharge biomarkers predicted the risk.

Frogger

Frogger is Konami's 1981 arcade game (ID GX392), distributed by Sega/Gremlin, in which players guide frogs across traffic and a river to five homes; nearly titled Highway Crossing Frog, ported widely, famous via Seinfeld.

Frogger (series)

Frogger (フロッガー) is Konami's 1981 arcade game and franchise: guide a frog across road and river. Distributed by Sega/Gremlin; sequels include Hasbro's 3D remakes and Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge.

Froggy Fresh

Froggy Fresh is the comedy rap persona of American rapper Tyler Stephen Cassidy (born 1990, Burton, Michigan), formerly known as Krispy Kreme. Viral 2012 hit "The Baddest"; forced 2012 rename over the Krispy Kreme trademark; albums Money Maker Reloaded and Dream Team.

Frogman

Frogman: military combat diver trained for underwater demolition, reconnaissance, and covert operations; term first recorded 1945, tied to WWII British divers, Italian Decima MAS swimmers, and US Navy UDTs, predecessors of the Navy SEALs.