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Frontal polymerization
Frontal polymerization is a polymerization method in which a localized, self-sustaining reaction front propagates through monomer, converting it to polymer within seconds and curing composites far faster than ovens.
Frontbench team of Nigel Farage
Frontbench team of Nigel Farage: the Reform UK spokespeople announced 17 February 2026, Robert Jenrick (Treasury), Suella Braverman (education), Richard Tice (business, trade, energy), Zia Yusuf (home affairs), not a formal shadow cabinet since Reform had eight MPs.
Frontera (supercomputer)
Frontera is a leadership-class supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin, launched in 2019 as the world's fastest university system.
Frontera Energy
Frontera Energy is a Canadian energy infrastructure company in Colombia, holding stakes in the ODL crude pipeline and the Puerto Bahía port terminal in Cartagena.
Frontiana
Frontiana: Roman mansio on the Via Domitia in southern Gaul (Hérault), named only on the fourth Vicarello cup between Cessero and Forum Domitii; located near Loupian or Mèze, not Frontignan.
Frontier
Frontier: a zone at the edge of settlement or state control where expansion and transformation occur. Central to Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 thesis on American democracy; distinct from borderlands; now also used for land-use, resource, and AI frontiers.
Frontier (2007 film)
Frontier(s) (Frontière(s)) is a 2007 French horror film, Xavier Gens's first feature, about young thieves fleeing Paris who fall into an inn run by cannibal neo-Nazis near the Luxembourg border.
Frontier (2016 TV series)
Frontier is a Canadian-American historical drama series starring Jason Momoa as outlaw trapper Declan Harp, who campaigns to break the Hudson's Bay Company's fur-trade monopoly in 1700s Canada.
Frontier (supercomputer)
Frontier, also known as OLCF-5, is an HPE Cray EX supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that in June 2022 became the first system to exceed one exaflop.
Frontier AI employee letter urging paced development
The "Pacing the Frontier" letter is an open letter by frontier AI company employees, published July 28, 2026, asking the US government to support pacing AI development.
Frontier AI Risk Management Framework
The Frontier AI Risk Management Framework is a voluntary safety protocol set for general-purpose AI developers, issued by Shanghai AI Laboratory and Concordia AI in July 2025.
Frontier Airlines
Frontier Airlines is an American ultra low-cost carrier headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1994, it is the largest such carrier in the United States.
Frontier analysis
Frontier analysis is a family of statistical and econometric methods that estimate a best-practice production frontier from data and measure how far each firm falls short of it.
Frontier Communications
Frontier Communications, known until 2008 as Citizens Communications, is an American fiber and copper broadband provider that Verizon acquired for $20 billion, closing in January 2026.
Frontier Crucible
Frontier Crucible: 2025 American Western thriller directed by Travis Mills, based on Harry Whittington's 1961 novel Desert Stake-Out, adapted by S. Craig Zahler; stars Myles Clohessy, Armie Hammer, Thomas Jane; released December 5, 2025, 125 minutes, R-rated.
Frontier Developments
Frontier Developments plc (AIM: FDEV), British video game developer founded by David Braben in Cambridge in January 1994; maker of Elite Dangerous, Planet Coaster, Planet Zoo, and Jurassic World Evolution using its proprietary COBRA engine; record FY26 revenue of £104.8 million.
Frontier Digital Ventures
Frontier Digital Ventures is a Kuala Lumpur-headquartered operator of online classifieds marketplaces in emerging markets, founded in 2014 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Frontier Formation
The Frontier Formation is a Cretaceous sandstone and shale rock unit widespread in Wyoming and adjacent states, named in 1901 near the coal town of Frontier, Wyoming.
Frontier gambler
Frontier gambler: 19th-century American West professional gambler, stock character of the frontier, whose trade centered on the card game faro (Pharaon, bucking the tiger), not poker, in saloons and gambling halls.
Frontier lab talent exodus
The frontier lab talent exodus is the 2024–26 wave of senior AI researchers leaving OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta to found competing AI startups, chasing roughly $50 billion.
Frontier League
The Frontier League, from 2027 the National Association of Professional Baseball (NAPB), is an independent professional baseball league founded in 1993, an MLB Partner League with 18 teams in the US and Eastern Canada.
Frontier Medicines
Frontier Medicines Corporation is a South San Francisco biotechnology company, founded in 2018 by Chris Varma, Daniel K. Nomura, and Roberto Zoncu, that uses chemoproteomics and AI to find cancer drugs.
Frontier Thesis
Frontier Thesis, also called the Turner thesis, is Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 argument that westward expansion and free land created American democracy, individualism, and national character, displacing the germ theory of American history.
Frontier-based exploration
Frontier-based exploration is a strategy for autonomous mobile robots that repeatedly navigate to frontiers, the boundaries between open space and unexplored territory, to build a map. Introduced by Brian Yamauchi in 1997.
FrontierMath
FrontierMath is a benchmark of original, unpublished research-level mathematics problems created by Epoch AI, launched in November 2024, where leading models initially solved under 2%.
Frontiers (Journey album)
Frontiers is Journey's eighth studio album, released in 1983 by Columbia Records. Recorded in Berkeley, California, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Frontiers in Education Conference
The Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) is an annual international peer-reviewed conference on engineering and computing education, founded by the IEEE Education Society in 1971 and co-sponsored by ASEE and the IEEE Computer Society.
Frontiers in Physics (book series)
Frontiers in Physics is a physics monograph and lecture-note book series founded by David Pines in 1961, whose inaugural titles included two books by Richard Feynman; it is currently published by CRC Press.
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Frontiers in Robotics and AI is a gold open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal on robotics and AI, published by Frontiers Media in Lausanne since 2014 and organized into 16 specialty sections.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers Media SA: Swiss gold open access academic publisher founded 2007 by Henry and Kamila Markram in Lausanne, running about 230 journals funded by APCs, with a two-phase collaborative peer review model and a contested integrity record including 122 retractions in 2025.