frontal adj

1 belonging to the front part; "a frontal appendage"

2 of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air; "frontal rainfall"

3 meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision" [syn: head-on]

4 of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone; "the frontal lobes"

1 an adornment worn on the forehead [syn: frontlet]

2 a drapery that covers the front of an altar

3 the face or front of a building [syn: facade, frontage]

English

Adjective

frontal

1. Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front: a frontal attack.
2. Anatomy
   1. Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
   2. Of or relating to the frontal plane.
3. Of or relating to a weather front.

Derived terms

• frontal bone
• frontal lobe
• frontal nudity

Translations

Noun

1. A drapery covering the front of an altar.
2. The façade of a building.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

frontal.

Adjective

frontal

1. frontal.

References

Front may refer to:

• The Front, a 1976 film
• The Hybrid Front, a Sega Mega Drive strategy game
• The Front (The Simpsons episode)
• Front (identity) for a blacklisted artist
• Front (magazine)
• Front (military), an area where armies are engaged in conflict
• Front (Soviet Army), a type of military formation
• Front (TO), an Italian municipality
• Front organization
• Front vowel
• Grill (jewelry)
• Ice front of a glacier
• Obverse of a coin
• Weather front
• In politics: Popular front, united front, national front

Frontal

• Frontal bone
• Frontal scale in a reptile
• Antependium, or altar frontal
• Coronal plane, or "frontal plane"

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