Front may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''The Front'' (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet drama film * ''

The Front ''The Front'' is a 1976 drama film set against the Hollywood blacklist in the 1950s, when artists, writers, directors, and others were rendered unemployable, having been accused of subversive political activities in support of Communism or of b ...

'', 1976 film

Music

The Front (band) The Front was an American rock band, originally formed in 1984 in Kansas City, Missouri, who enjoyed a brief popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although originally offered a recording contract in 1987 with Sire/Warner Brothers Recor ...

, an American rock band signed to Columbia Records and active in the 1980s and early 1990s *

The Front (Canadian band) Joel Richard Stephan Feeney (born November 21, 1957) is a Canadian country, pop music singer, songwriter and record producer. History Joel Feeney commenced his recording career with the pop rock band The Front. Feeney was also a producer on album ...

, a Canadian studio band from the 1980s

Periodicals

* ''Front'' (magazine), a British men's magazine * '' Front Illustrated Paper'', a publication of the Yugoslav People's Army

Television

Front TV Front TV was an international broadcast design and branding firm for television, film and interactive media. Front specialized in creative thinking, network branding, station IDs, film titles, 2D-3D animation, web, print, and sound design. In 200 ...

, a Toronto broadcast design and branding firm * "The Front" (''The Blacklist''), a 2014 episode of the TV series ''The Blacklist'' * "The Front" (''The Simpsons''), a 1993 episode of the TV series ''The Simpsons''

Military

Front (military) In a military context, the term front can have several meanings. According to official US Department of Defense and NATO definitions, a front can be "the line of contact of two opposing forces."Leonard, B. (2011). Department of Defense Diction ...

, a geographical area where armies are engaged in conflict * Front (military formation), roughly, an army group, especially in eastern Europe

Places

* Front, California, former name of

Brown, California Brown (formerly, Siding 18, Front, and Mount Owen) is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Kern County, California, Kern County, California. It is located on the Southern Pacific Railroad north-northwest of Inyokern, California, I ...

* Front, Piedmont, an Italian municipality * The Front, now part of the

Delaware Park-Front Park System Delaware ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Maryland to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and New Jersey and the Atlantic Ocean to its east. The state takes its name from the adjacent Del ...

, in Buffalo, New York, US

Science and technology

Front (oceanography) In oceanography, a front is a boundary between two distinct water masses. The formation of fronts depends on multiple physical processes and small differences in these lead to a wide range of front types. They can be as narrow as a few hundreds o ...

, a place where two water masses come together in the ocean *

Front (physics) In physics, a front can be understood as an interface between two different possible states (either stable or unstable) in a physical system. For example, a weather front is the interface between two different density masses of air, in combustion wh ...

, a solution connecting two steady states *

Front (sociology) Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective commonly used in micro-sociological accounts of social interaction in everyday life. The term was first adapted into sociology from the theatre by Erving Goffman, who developed most of the related termin ...

, or mask, in dramaturgy *

Front and back {{See also, grave and acute (phonetics) From an articulatory perspective, phonemes can be described as front or back. Front vowels refer to vowels articulated towards the front of the mouth. This can either refer to vowels that are more front tha ...

, descriptors of phonemes in linguistics * Front vowel, a class of vowel sounds, in linguistics *

Ice front A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating ...

of a glacier *

Weather front A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity. Disturbed and unstable weather due to these differences often arises along the boundary. For in ...

, a boundary separating air masses, and the cause of most weather phenomena

Other uses

* Front organization, any entity set up by and controlled by another organization *

Rebecca Front Rebecca Louise Front (born 16 May 1964) is an English actress, writer and comedian. She won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for '' The Thick of It'' (2009–2012).Jennifer Lipma"Bafta for Jewish actress Rebecca Front" ...

(born 1964), English comedy actress *

Grill (jewelry) In hip hop culture, a grill (most commonly referred to as grills or grillz), also known as fronts or golds, is a type of dental jewelry worn over the teeth. Grills are made of metal and are generally removable. They began to be worn by hip-hop ...

, also known as "front", jewelry for teeth