FRONTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frontal mean? 

• FRONTAL (noun)
  The noun FRONTAL has 3 senses:

1. an adornment worn on the forehead

2. a drapery that covers the front of an altar

3. the face or front of a building

  Familiarity information: FRONTAL used as a noun is uncommon.

• FRONTAL (adjective)
  The adjective FRONTAL has 4 senses:

1. belonging to the front part

2. of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air

3. meeting front to front

4. of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone

  Familiarity information: FRONTAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRONTAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An adornment worn on the forehead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

frontal; frontlet

Hypernyms ("frontal" is a kind of...):

adornment (a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A drapery that covers the front of an altar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("frontal" is a kind of...):

curtain; drape; drapery; mantle; pall (hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The face or front of a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

facade; frontage; frontal

Hypernyms ("frontal" is a kind of...):

front (the side that is seen or that goes first)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "frontal"):

frontispiece (an ornamental facade)

• FRONTAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging to the front part

Context example:

a frontal appendage

Similar:

anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body)

Derivation:

front (the side that is seen or that goes first)

front (the side that is forward or prominent)

front (the part of something that is nearest to the normal viewer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the front of an advancing mass of air

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

frontal rainfall

Domain category:

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

Pertainym:

front ((meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses)

Derivation:

front ((meteorology) the atmospheric phenomenon created at the boundary between two different air masses)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Meeting front to front

Synonyms:

frontal; head-on

Context example:

a head-on collision

Similar:

front (relating to or located in the front)

Derivation:

front (the line along which opposing armies face each other)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Of or adjacent to the forehead or frontal bone

Context example:

the frontal lobes

Similar:

anterior (of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body)

 Context examples 

A meningioma that affects the frontal sulcus.

(Frontal Convexity Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

The frontal sinuses are lined with cells that make mucus to keep the nose from drying out.

(Frontal sinus, NCI Dictionary)

A benign neoplasm that arises from the ciliated respiratory mucosa that lines the frontal sinus.

(Frontal Sinus Inverted Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign or malignant neoplasm that affects the frontal sinus.

(Frontal Sinus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

An electrocardiographic finding of a frontal plane QRS axis from -90 to +180 degrees.

(Extreme Right Axis Deviation, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Inflammation of the frontal sinus that typically lasts beyond eight weeks.

(Chronic Frontal Sinusitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A radiologic finding that is detected with frontal chest X-ray or chest CT scan.

(Bat Wing Pulmonary Opacities, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-metastasizing neoplasm that arises from the frontal sinus.

(Benign Frontal Sinus Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

‘You have less frontal development than I should have expected,’ said he, at last.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A polyp that arises from the frontal sinus mucosa.

(Frontal Sinus Polyp, NCI Thesaurus)