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Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station (2013) is Ryan Coogler's debut drama about Oscar Grant III, shot by BART officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year's Day 2009; Sundance Grand Jury and Audience Award winner starring Michael B. Jordan.
Frullania
Frullania Raddi, 1818: sole genus of Frullaniaceae, largest genus of liverwort order Porellales, 300-375+ species worldwide except Antarctica; epiphytic, reddish, water-sac lobules, eleven subgenera.
Frumentius
Frumentius, also called Abba Salama or Fremnatos, was a fourth-century Tyrian who became the first bishop of Aksum, credited with introducing Christianity to the Ethiopian kingdom.
Frums
Frums is an American electronic musician in the Japanese rhythm-game and doujin sphere, known for tracks in Arcaea, maimai, and Cytus II and the prize-winning "Aegleseeker" with Silentroom.
Frumusica
Frumușica is the name of two Moldovan villages, in the Florești and Leova districts, and of a Moldovan village in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, razed in 1946 for a military range.
Frunzyenski Rayon
Frunzyenski Rayon (Фрунзенскі раён) is the largest of Minsk's nine districts, Belarus, established 17 April 1951, area 43 km², population 463,188 (2019), named for Mikhail Frunze; distinct from St. Petersburg's Frunzensky district.
Fruquintinib
Fruquintinib, marketed as Elunate in China and Fruzaqla elsewhere, is an oral VEGFR inhibitor developed by HUTCHMED that treats metastatic colorectal cancer, first approved in China in 2018 and by the FDA in 2023.
Frustrated Lewis pair
A frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) is a Lewis acid and base prevented from forming an adduct, leaving both reactive; pairs famously cleave hydrogen without metals.
Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry in metal–organic frameworks
Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry in metal–organic frameworks embeds sterically prevented Lewis acid–base pairs in MOF pores, proposed computationally around 2015 and later realized as recyclable catalysts for hydrogenation and CO2 conversion.
Frustrated Lewis pair CO2 activation
Frustrated Lewis pair CO2 activation is the capture and distortion of carbon dioxide by a sterically hindered Lewis acid and base that cannot form a classical adduct.
Frustrated magnetism
Frustrated magnetism is the study of magnets whose competing spin interactions cannot all be satisfied at once, preventing simple magnetic order and producing spin liquids.
Frustration
Frustration, in psychology, is the thwarting of expected goal attainment and the emotional state it produces; central to the frustration-aggression hypothesis of Dollard et al. (1939), revised by Miller (1941) and Berkowitz (1989).
Frustum
A frustum (plural frusta, frustums) is the portion of a solid lying between two parallel planes, most commonly a cone or pyramid cut by a plane parallel to its base.
Frustum culling
Frustum culling is a rendering optimization that skips drawing objects entirely outside the camera's viewable volume, the view frustum, by testing each object's bounding volume against the frustum's six planes every frame.
Fruticose lichen
Fruticose lichen: a lichen growth form with a three-dimensional, erect or pendulous, shrubby or beard-like thallus (e.g., Usnea, Cladonia), attached at one point, growing 1.5–5 mm per year at the tips, distinct from crustose and foliose forms.
Frutiger Aero
Frutiger Aero, or Web 2.0 Gloss, is the glossy, nature-meets-technology design aesthetic of roughly 2004–2013, named for Adrian Frutiger's typeface and Windows Aero; coined by Sofi Lee (CARI) in 2017 and revived on TikTok from 2022.
Fry and Laurie
Fry and Laurie: British comedy double act of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, formed at Cambridge Footlights around 1980, known for A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987–1995), Jeeves and Wooster, and Blackadder.
Fry sauce
Fry sauce is a Utah-Idaho condiment of ketchup and mayonnaise (1:2 or 1:1) for dipping fries. Also called fancy sauce; related to salsa golf, mayoketchup, Marie Rose sauce. Origin credited to Don Carlos Edwards and Arctic Circle, disputed by Provo's Stan's Drive-In.
Fry's Electronics
Fry's Electronics was an American chain of electronics superstores founded in 1985 by the Fry brothers in Sunnyvale, California, known for elaborate themed stores before closing in 2021.
Frybread
Frybread (fry bread) is a Native American flatbread of flour, water, salt, and baking powder fried in lard or oil, traced to 1864 government rations at Bosque Redondo during the Navajo Long Walk; about 700 calories per plate-size piece.
FryDay
FryDay (फ्राईडे) is a 2018 Hindi comedy film directed by Abhishek Dogra, starring Govinda, Varun Sharma, and Digangana Suryavanshi, released 12 October 2018, about a salesman caught in a client's affair.
Fryderyk
Fryderyk (Fryderyki) is Poland's main music industry award, given since 1995 by the Phonographic Academy of ZPAV in popular, classical, and jazz sections via secret two-stage voting; Złoty Fryderyk honors lifetime achievement.
Frye Solar
Frye Solar is a 637 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic plant near Kress in Swisher County, Texas, built by Hecate Energy and completed by Repsol in April 2024.
Frying pan
Frying pan (skillet): a flat, long-handled metal pan for frying, searing, and browning. Made in nonstick, stainless steel, cast iron, carbon steel, and copper; ancient origins; PTFE degrades above 260 °C.
Fryingpan–Arkansas Project
The Fryingpan–Arkansas Project (Fry-Ark) is a Bureau of Reclamation project in Colorado, authorized in 1962, that diverts water under the Continental Divide into the Arkansas River basin for irrigation, municipal use, and hydropower.
Fryns syndrome
Fryns syndrome (FRNS, OMIM 229850), also called diaphragmatic hernia-facial dysmorphism-distal limb anomalies syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive multiple congenital anomaly disorder involving congenital diaphragmatic hernia, pulmonary hypoplasia, facial anomalies, and distal limb hypoplasia, caused in some cases by biallelic PIGN variants.
Fryslân wind farm
Fryslân wind farm, or Windpark Fryslân, is a 382.7 MW nearshore wind farm of 89 turbines in the IJsselmeer, Netherlands, the largest built on an inland water, operational since 2021.
FS Class D.341
The FS Class D.341 was a class of 105 diesel-electric locomotives of the Italian State Railways, built between 1957 and 1963 for passenger trains on non-electrified lines.
FS Class D.445
The FS Class D.445 is a class of 150 Italian diesel-electric locomotives built for Ferrovie dello Stato between 1974 and 1988, with a top speed of 130 km/h.
FS Class E.444
The FS Class E.444 was a class of 117 electric locomotives of the Italian state railways, nicknamed Tartaruga, built from 1967 and serving fast InterCity trains until withdrawal in 2019.