Definition of frontier
1 a
: a border between two countries
- the frontier between Canada and the U.S.
b
obsolete
: a stronghold on a frontier
2 a
: a region that forms the margin of settled or developed territory
- were sent on an expedition to explore the western frontier
b
: the farthermost limits of knowledge or achievement in a particular subject
- frontiers in immunology
c
: a line of division between different or opposed things
- the frontiers separating science and the humanities
- —R. W. Clark
d
: a new field for exploitative or developmental activity
- … the brain lies before us as one of the last scientific frontiers here on earth.
- —Robert Klitzman
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