Frontier
noun
The borderline or outer part of a place, country, or any territory.
The mountain range was the frontier between the two countries.
Often appears as...
- frontier town
- frontier outpost
noun
The limit or edge of understanding or achievement in a particular field.
Quantum computing represents the new frontier in computer science.
Often appears as...
- the final frontier
- the new frontier
noun
A region that forms the margin of an inhabited territory.
Settlers moved westward, bringing their families to live on the frontier.
Often appears as...
- frontier life
- frontier settlement
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Historical
noun
The borderline or outer part of a place, country, or any territory.
The mountain range was the frontier between the two countries.
Often appears as...
- frontier town
- frontier outpost
noun
The limit or edge of understanding or achievement in a particular field.
Quantum computing represents the new frontier in computer science.
Often appears as...
- the final frontier
- the new frontier
noun
A region that forms the margin of an inhabited territory.
Settlers moved westward, bringing their families to live on the frontier.
Often appears as...
- frontier life
- frontier settlement
Usage tips
Historical
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Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Edge
Used to describe a dividing line between different physical spaces, often vast or rural.
Their farm is located right on the frontier of the national park.
Pro Tip 2/3Connotation of Wilderness
May imply untamed nature or underdeveloped regions just beyond the border.
The pioneers ventured into the frontier in search of new lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Historic Migration
Historically refers to areas where people moved to expand settlements.
Many brave souls traveled to the frontier for a chance to start anew.
Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Edge
Used to describe a dividing line between different physical spaces, often vast or rural.
Their farm is located right on the frontier of the national park.
Pro Tip 2/3Connotation of Wilderness
May imply untamed nature or underdeveloped regions just beyond the border.
The pioneers ventured into the frontier in search of new lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Historic Migration
Historically refers to areas where people moved to expand settlements.
Many brave souls traveled to the frontier for a chance to start anew.
Pro Tip 1/3Geographical Edge
Used to describe a dividing line between different physical spaces, often vast or rural.
Their farm is located right on the frontier of the national park.
Pro Tip 2/3Connotation of Wilderness
May imply untamed nature or underdeveloped regions just beyond the border.
The pioneers ventured into the frontier in search of new lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Historic Migration
Historically refers to areas where people moved to expand settlements.
Many brave souls traveled to the frontier for a chance to start anew.
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Should we be looking for...
to deny the very pioneering spirits that help shape our own species. We are all born curious about the world and the universe. Pursuing that curiosity is one of humankind's greatest achievements. Perhaps there is room to push the frontiers of science, provided that we cradle alongside our fervor
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How algorithms shape our...
that's a kind of manifest destiny; and we'll always look for a new frontier. Unfortunately, we have our work cut out for us. This is just theoretical. This is some mathematicians at MIT. And the truth is I don't really understand a lot of what they're talking about.
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Walking in your truth as...
standing here and they're paying and their truth and actors that what can you do and when you say what can I do it's joining the revolution of loving and accepting someone different because different is the new frontier and if you
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Billy Graham:...
On one hand, we can probe the deepest secrets of the universe and dramatically push back the frontiers of technology, as this conference vividly demonstrates. We've seen under the sea, three miles down,
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Design at the...
So here they are, the two worldviews. One spins silk out of a robotic arm, the other fills in the gaps. If the final frontier of design is to breathe life into the products and the buildings around us,
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How we teach computers...
still struggle at this task. So I'm here today to give you a progress report on the latest advances in our research in computer vision, one of the most frontier and potentially revolutionary
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The Last Coral Reef of...
understanding how and why corals bio Flores is a new frontier for science unlocking their secrets will help scientists to understand how reefs are threatened and hope to protect them
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The genius behind some...
But you know, it's a very funny kind of art. It's an art at the frontier between art and science. It's fed by by real life, every day. It's driven by force of necessity.
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Around the World on Sun...
Where you are going is just as important as how you plan to get there. As we look forward to new frontiers here on Earth and beyond, places where resources may be
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Exoplanets 101 PIPE...
- They are nestled in the final frontier, countless worlds, scattered throughout countless galaxies,
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Should we be looking for...
to deny the very pioneering spirits that help shape our own species. We are all born curious about the world and the universe. Pursuing that curiosity is one of humankind's greatest achievements. Perhaps there is room to push the frontiers of science, provided that we cradle alongside our fervor
Video examples
How algorithms shape our...
that's a kind of manifest destiny; and we'll always look for a new frontier. Unfortunately, we have our work cut out for us. This is just theoretical. This is some mathematicians at MIT. And the truth is I don't really understand a lot of what they're talking about.
Video examples
Walking in your truth as...
standing here and they're paying and their truth and actors that what can you do and when you say what can I do it's joining the revolution of loving and accepting someone different because different is the new frontier and if you
Video examples
Billy Graham:...
On one hand, we can probe the deepest secrets of the universe and dramatically push back the frontiers of technology, as this conference vividly demonstrates. We've seen under the sea, three miles down,
Video examples
Design at the...
So here they are, the two worldviews. One spins silk out of a robotic arm, the other fills in the gaps. If the final frontier of design is to breathe life into the products and the buildings around us,
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How we teach computers...
still struggle at this task. So I'm here today to give you a progress report on the latest advances in our research in computer vision, one of the most frontier and potentially revolutionary
Video examples
The Last Coral Reef of...
understanding how and why corals bio Flores is a new frontier for science unlocking their secrets will help scientists to understand how reefs are threatened and hope to protect them
Video examples
The genius behind some...
But you know, it's a very funny kind of art. It's an art at the frontier between art and science. It's fed by by real life, every day. It's driven by force of necessity.
Video examples
Around the World on Sun...
Where you are going is just as important as how you plan to get there. As we look forward to new frontiers here on Earth and beyond, places where resources may be
Video examples
Exoplanets 101 PIPE...
- They are nestled in the final frontier, countless worlds, scattered throughout countless galaxies,
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Steven Johnson
American Author
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
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Rick Tumlinson
American Businessman
We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we will get more science because when you are living somewhere, you obviously learn more about it. NASA and the government must first get out of the way and then support us as we open the frontier.
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Edwin Powell Hubble
American Scientist
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
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Molly Ivins
American Journalist
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
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Lloyd Kaufman
American Director
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.
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Han Fei
Chinese Philosopher
Within the frontiers of a state, there are no more than ten people who do good of themselves, whereas if one makes it so that the people can do no wrong, the entire state can be kept peaceful.
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Cate Blanchett
Australian Actress
I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
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Ransom Riggs
American Writer
We kind of know there's no more frontiers in the physical world. So the frontiers move from where we haven't been yet to where we've been and abandoned.
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Aly Khan
Italian Public Servant
Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.
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Steven Johnson
American Author
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
Quote examples
Rick Tumlinson
American Businessman
We go as humans into space to expand the domain of humanity and life - not robots. And as we do, we will get more science because when you are living somewhere, you obviously learn more about it. NASA and the government must first get out of the way and then support us as we open the frontier.
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Edwin Powell Hubble
American Scientist
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
Quote examples
Molly Ivins
American Journalist
In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.
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Lloyd Kaufman
American Director
I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.
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Han Fei
Chinese Philosopher
Within the frontiers of a state, there are no more than ten people who do good of themselves, whereas if one makes it so that the people can do no wrong, the entire state can be kept peaceful.
Quote examples
Cate Blanchett
Australian Actress
I never feel particularly comfortable holding a gun, but when you're playing somebody who lived in the frontier southwest, guns are a part of their life. Anyone who lives on land has a gun.
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Ransom Riggs
American Writer
We kind of know there's no more frontiers in the physical world. So the frontiers move from where we haven't been yet to where we've been and abandoned.
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Aly Khan
Italian Public Servant
Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.
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