| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Placed on the frontiers.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb frontier.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (frontier) | 1. To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: frontiering, frontiered, frontiers, frontierer, frontierers, frontieringly and frontieredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FRONTIERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FRONTIERED
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Guarded on the frontiers. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: frontier
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Army of the Frontier | The Army of the Frontier was a Union army that served in the Trans-Mississippi Theater during the Civil War. It fought in several minor engagements in Arkansas, Indian Territory and Kansas. (references) | ||
| Battle Frontier | The Battle Frontier is a fictional place located in the Hoenn region in the video game Pokémon Emerald that specializes in variations of Pokémon battling. To enter, you need to sign up at one of the desks to obtain the Frontier Pass, which enables you to roam freely around the Battle Frontier. (references) | ||
| Battletech: The Frontier Lands | Battletech: The Frontier Lands is a science fiction massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) game developed and ran by the community that plays it. Players take to the front lines of an inter-stellar battle over planets on the outer rim of human settlement. Embattled factions duke it out with 100 ton bipedal war machines, crushing one another under massive metallic feet. (references) | ||
| Blue Frontier Campaign | The Blue Frontier Campaign is a United States marine conservation activist organization founded by David Helvarg in 2003. (references) | ||
| Cape Frontier Wars | Cape Frontier Wars also called Kaffir wars or Kafir wars (1779-1879) was 100 years of intermittent warfare and nine different wars between the Cape colonists and the Xhosa agricultural and pastoral peoples of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa. One of the most prolonged struggles by African peoples against European intrusion, it ended in the annexation of Xhosa territories by the Cape Colony and the incorporation of its peoples. (references) | ||
| Delivered At Frontier | Delivered At Frontier (DAF) is an Incoterm. It can be used when the goods are transported by rail and road. The seller pays for transportation to the named place of delivery at the frontier. The buyer arranges for customs clearance and pays for transportation from the frontier to his factory. The passing of risk occurs at the frontier. (references) | ||
| Electronic Frontier Canada | Electronic Frontier Canada (EFC) is a Canadian on-line civil rights organization founded to ensure that the principles embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms remain protected as new computing, communications, and information technologies are introduced into Canadian society. (references) | ||
| Finnish Frontier Guard | The Frontier Guard (Finnish: Rajavartiolaitos) of Finland is the Finnish security authority responsible for the border security. It is a military organization, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrational issues and to the President of the Republic in issues pertaining to her authority as Commander-in-Chief (e.g. officer promotions). (references) | ||
| Flanks of a frontier | Salient points in a national boundary, strengthened to protect the frontier against hostile incursion. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist | Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist is a comic Old West adventure computer game created by Al Lowe (of Leisure Suit Larry fame) and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. It was dubbed "the Blazing Saddles of computer games" by Computer Gaming Magazine. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: frontier
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Coastal frontier | Military | (DOD) A geographic division of a coastal area, established for organization and command purposes in order to ensure the effective coordination of military forces employed in military operations within the coastal frontier area. (references) | |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | Computing | (EFF) A group established to address social and legal issues arising from the impact on society of the increasingly pervasive use of computers as a means of communication and information distribution. EFF is a non-profit civil liberties public interest organisation working to protect freedom of expression, privacy, and access to on-line resources and information. Home (http://www.eff.org/) (1994-12-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.. | |
| Frontier Community | Health | The definition is under development. (references) | |
| Markowitz efficient frontier | Finance | The graphical depiction of the Markowitz efficient set of portfolios representing the boundary of the set of feasible portfolios that have the maximum return for a given level of risk. Any portfolios above the frontier cannot be achieved. Any below the frontier are dominated by Markowitz efficient portfolios. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Sea frontier | Military | (DOD) The naval command of a coastal frontier, including the coastal zone in addition to the land area of the coastal frontier and the adjacent sea areas. (references) | |
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