frontal
Americanadjective
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of, in, or at the front.
a frontal view; frontal attack.
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Anatomy.
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of, relating to, or situated near the forehead or the frontal bone.
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Meteorology. of or relating to the division between dissimilar air masses.
frontal zone; frontal surface.
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Fine Arts.
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exhibiting frontality.
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parallel to the surface in the pictorial arts or seen from the front view in sculpture.
the frontal plane.
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noun
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Ecclesiastical. a movable cover or hanging for the front of an altar.
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Anatomy. any of several parts in the frontal region, especially the frontal bone.
adjective
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of, at, or in the front
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of or relating to the forehead
frontal artery
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of or relating to the anterior part of a body or organ
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meteorol of, relating to, or resulting from a front or its passage
frontal rainfall
noun
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a decorative hanging for the front of an altar
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another name for frontlet
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of frontal
1275–1325; < Late Latin frontālis ( New Latin, in anatomy sense); replacing Middle English frountel < Old French frontel. See front, -al 1
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During typical aging, the brain's gradual shift away from relying heavily on the hippocampus and toward greater involvement of the frontal cortex generally unfolds between the fifth and seventh decades of life.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
Dave Owen, a professor at UC Law San Francisco, said the suit is “a frontal assault on the State Water Project.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
But in the 1960s, she fused her mandala-faces and landscapes into dense, mysterious worlds—relief-like frontal fields in which deities, animals and foliage, woven together, blossom and interchange between figure and ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
These included frontal and temporal regions as well as areas involved in memory and emotion.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
When the researchers scanned the subjects’ brains, they discovered that this tiny fraction of people seemed to have less activity going on in key portions of the frontal lobe.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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