Of or pertaining to the forehead or frons, or to the bone of the forehead: as, the frontal crest of a bird; frontal plates of a reptile.
In entomology See clypeal suture, under clypeal.
noun Something worn on the forehead or face; a frontlet.
noun Something that comes or is situated in front; a front piece or part, as (formerly) the valance of a bed.
noun Specifically In heraldry: The front of anything, as of a helmet or a cap.
noun The forehead, as of a human head, used as a bearing.
noun In architecture, a little pediment or frontispiece over a small door or window.
noun Eccles.: A movable cover or hanging for the front of an altar.
noun In England, in the middle ages, also a movable cover of wood or precious metal for the front of the altar. Such a frontal was sometimes called a table (also tabula, tablementum).
noun In medicine, a medicament or preparation to be applied to the forehead.
noun In anatomy and zoology, the frontal bone; the bone of the forehead.
adjective (Anat.) Belonging to the front part; being in front.
noun An ornamental band for the hair.
noun (Mil.) The metal face guard of a soldier.
noun (Arch.) A little pediment over a door or window.
noun (Eccl.) A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.
noun (Med.), obsolete A medicament or application for the forehead.
noun (Anat.) The frontal bone, or one of the two frontal bones, of the cranium.
noun a forge hammer lifted by a cam, acting upon a "tongue" immediately in front of the hammer head.
adjective Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front: a frontal attack.
adjective anatomy Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
adjective anatomy Of or relating to the frontal plane.
adjective Of or relating to a weather front.
noun A drapery covering the front of an altar.
noun The façade of a building.
noun anatomy The bone at the front of the skull, behind the forehead.
Middle English frontel, from Old French, from Medieval Latin frontāle, from Latin frōns, front-, forehead, front.
In 1985, Alito wrote a memo advising against what he called a frontal assault on the "Row v. Wade" ruling.
We can consider a story as linear entity, moving from beginning to end, having one dimension in "frontal" time.
One of the nation's most popular cars, the Toyota Camry, received a three-star rating after getting three-star results in frontal and side crashes.
As the early linen clothing of the altar recalled our Lord's burial shroud, so the precious coloured fabric of the later frontal is to recall his royalty.
One can see from its construction that it was possibly built in this way because there was no facility to hang a textile frontal from the altar itself as it traditionally would be, either by frame or by hooks, without making structural modifications to the altar itself.
The frontal is quite well made and the proportions of the candles and cross are also quite appropriate to an altar of these dimensions.
Interestingly, I learnt all these principles not in frontal lessons or formal presentations, but as an apprentice, following my mentors 'own attitude and way of thinking.
Provided this problem could be solved, W and Z could be created in frontal collisions between antiprotons and protons in the new superaccelerator, SPS, at CERN.
Conversely, there was no associated link between men who had receding hairlines, which is called frontal baldness, and prostate cancer.
There's a type of Alzheimer's called frontal temporal lobe dementia that, in a few rare cases, when it destroys the frontal cortex and the language parts of the brain, art work or skill in photography will appear in a person who's had no previous interest in art.
Talking with Dr. Temple Grandin, Author of "Thinking in Pictures"