frontal

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If Cupertino's latest was a tease, than Windows 8 is full frontal.

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Quick take

an adornment worn on the forehead

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of frontal gathered in one view.

noun

an adornment worn on the forehead

noun

a drapery that covers the front of an altar

noun

the face or front of a building

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for frontal.

noun

an adornment worn on the forehead

noun

a drapery that covers the front of an altar

noun

the face or front of a building

adjective

belonging to the front part; "a frontal appendage"

adjective

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

adjective

meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision"

adjective

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

Example sentences

If Cupertino's latest was a tease, than Windows 8 is full frontal.

The names of these startups sound like the products of an aggressive brain tumor on the frontal lobe.

If you want to take on a problem as big as the ones I've discussed, don't make a direct frontal attack on it.

In the spectrum, frontal lobe development can almost equate to tabula rasa on certain traits.

Sure they think about powering devices but what about a couple of Watt-Seconds of energy appearing in your frontal lobes?

For the longest time my only logical approach to alleviation was a frontal lobotomy.

I don't know how I'd feel when I turn old though, as your frontal cortex deteriorates, causing you to have less empathy and concern for your surrounding.

Confronting the possibility prior to frontal lobe development can radically redirect a life.

And for context, this is the era in which Walter Freeman was perfecting frontal lobotomy techniques that eventually left tens of thousands of individuals with gross cognitive impairments.

There weren't any rules when I was in primary school either and there definitely were bullies and injuries on the playground.> Children develop the frontal lobe of their brain when taking risks, meaning they work out consequences.

For example, in EVE, it might be desirable to not send information about a ship if it's completely occluded by another ship, or to only send information about ships that are in a frontal cone ahead of you.

It seems like the reason his intellectual capacity stayed the same may be because the beam did not touch his frontal lobes, but passed through his midbrain all the way to the back of his head, and appears to have exited near the occipital lobe.

[1] "The identified variables were age, PCL:YV Factor 1, PCL:YV Factor 2, years of regular substance use, total number of convictions, ICU, SES, brain volume, left and right lateral orbital frontal cortex, medial orbital frontal cortex, anterior and posterior cingulate, right temporal pole, and right and left parahippocampal cortex.