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Frontiers of Engineering and Frontiers of Medicine
Frontiers of Engineering and Frontiers of Medicine are invitation-only National Academy of Engineering symposia, held since 1995, that gather about 100 early-career engineers yearly to learn research outside their fields.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire
Frontiers of the Roman Empire is a transnational UNESCO World Heritage property conserving sections of the Roman Limes, a 5,000 km border system of the 2nd century AD.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site in Romania, inscribed in 2024, comprising 277 component parts of the Roman frontier (Dacian Limes).
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Danube Limes (Western Segment): UNESCO World Heritage site (2021) in Austria, Germany, and Slovakia; 77 components over almost 600 km of Roman Danube frontier from Bad Gögging to Iža.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes (Nedergermaanse limes) is a 2021 transnational UNESCO World Heritage Site of 102 components along about 400 km of the Lower Rhine in Germany and the Netherlands, the earliest linear Roman frontier, in use from the late 1st century BC to the 5th century CE.
Frontinus
Frontinus, or Sextus Julius Frontinus, was a Roman senator and general who served as water commissioner of Rome and wrote the surviving treatise on its aqueducts.
Frontline
Frontline is an American investigative documentary series produced at GBH in Boston and broadcast on PBS since 1983, created by David Fanning and narrated for decades by Will Lyman.
Frontline (Australian TV series)
Frontline is an Australian ABC TV satirical comedy (1994–1997) by Working Dog Productions, a behind-the-scenes parody of a ratings-driven current affairs program hosted by Mike Moore (Rob Sitch), winner of 1996 AFI, ATOM, and Logie awards.
Frontline Ltd.
Frontline Ltd. is an international shipping company transporting crude oil and refined products with one of the world's largest independent tanker fleets, listed in New York and Oslo.
Frontline States
The Frontline States (FLS) were a loose coalition of southern African states formed in 1975 to oppose white minority rule and coordinate support for liberation movements.
Frontliner
Frontliner is the professional name of Barry Drooger, a Dutch hardstyle producer and DJ born in Amsterdam in 1984, known for the 2008 track 'Spacer' and the anthem 'Halos'.
Fronto
Fronto, full name Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. AD 95 – c. 166), was a Roman orator from Cirta in Numidia and Latin rhetoric tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Frontofacionasal dysplasia
Frontofacionasal dysplasia (FFND), also called Gollop syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder marked by congenital craniofacial malformations including hypertelorism, midface underdevelopment, and cleft lip or palate.
Frontogenesis
Frontogenesis is the formation or intensification of a weather front through tightening of the horizontal potential temperature gradient, a process quantified by Petterssen in 1936.
Frontometaphyseal dysplasia
Frontometaphyseal dysplasia (FMD, ORPHA:1826) is a rare congenital skeletal dysplasia with supraorbital hyperostosis, hand contractures, scoliosis, and hearing loss; caused by gain-of-function FLNA (X-linked) or MAP3K7/TAB2 (autosomal dominant) mutations.
Frontonasal dysplasia-alopecia-genital anomalies syndrome
Frontonasal dysplasia-alopecia-genital anomalies syndrome (FND type 2, ALX4-related, OMIM 613451): autosomal recessive disorder with coronal craniosynostosis, skull defects, hypertelorism, bifid nose, total alopecia, hypogonadism, and mild-moderate intellectual disability.
Frontonasal dysplasia-severe microphthalmia-severe facial clefting syndrome
A rare genetic disorder, also called frontonasal dysplasia type 3, caused by ALX1 gene variants and marked by severe facial clefts, small eyes, and hypertelorism.
Frontone
Frontone, comune in Pesaro e Urbino, Marche, Italy, at the foot of Monte Catria; 11th-century castle held by the Gabrielli until 1420, then Montefeltro duchy; also the Italian word for a classical pediment.
Frontorhiny
Frontorhiny, also called ALX3-related frontonasal dysplasia or frontonasal dysplasia type 1, is a rare autosomal recessive midline facial malformation caused by homozygous ALX3 mutations, marked by hypertelorism, broad columella, widened philtrum, and bifid nasal tip.
Frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), also called Pick's disease historically, is a group of early-onset dementias with frontal and temporal lobe atrophy, behavioral or language decline, tau/TDP-43/FUS pathology, MAPT/GRN/C9orf72 genes, and no cure.
Frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease
Frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease (FTD-MND, FTD-ALS): combined frontotemporal dementia and ALS within the ALS-FTD spectrum, onset 38-78 years, TDP-43 pathology, C9orf72 expansion, death 2-5 years after onset.
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), also called frontotemporal dementia (FTD), is a group of neurodegenerative diseases causing frontal and temporal lobe atrophy; leading early-onset dementia under 60, with tau, TDP-43, or FUS protein inclusions and C9orf72, GRN, MAPT mutations.
FrontPoint Partners
FrontPoint Partners was a Greenwich, Connecticut-based multi-strategy hedge fund platform that Morgan Stanley bought in 2006 and dissolved in 2011 after an insider trading scandal.
Froot
Froot (FROOT) is the third studio album by Welsh artist Marina and the Diamonds, self-written, co-produced by David Kosten, released March 16, 2015 on Atlantic; it debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 and scored 75 on Metacritic.
Froot Loops
Froot Loops (Fruit Loops is a common misspelling) is Kellogg's 1963 sweetened multigrain ring cereal with Toucan Sam mascot, six colors, one shared flavor, now owned by Ferrero via WK Kellogg and switching to natural colors by end of 2026.
Froschkonig
Froschkönig (Frog King), a 2003 Zoch Verlag children's dexterity game by Uwe Rapp and Bernhard Lach: players feel in bags for two wooden sticks to bridge a distance without overshooting, extending frog tongues toward a princess; Kinderspiel des Jahres 2004 recommendation.
Frosinone Calcio
Frosinone Calcio, also Frosinone 1928, is an Italian football club from Frosinone, Lazio, founded 1906, playing at the Stadio Benito Stirpe. Serie B champions 2022-23, promoted to Serie A in 2015, 2018, 2023, and again in 2026.
Frost
Frost, also called ground frost, is a deposit of ice crystals on surfaces such as grass and windows cooled below 0 °C, typically on clear, calm nights, with types including hoar frost and rime.
Frost (lunar crater)
Frost is an IAU-approved 78.30-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon, centered at 37.46° latitude and −118.98° longitude, named for astronomer Edwin Brant Frost and listed as Gazetteer feature ID 2031.
Frost (rapper)
Frost, born Arturo Molina Jr. (1964), originally Kid Frost, is an East Los Angeles Chicano rap pioneer whose 1990 single "La Raza" from Hispanic Causing Panic was the first mainstream Chicano rap hit.