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  • noun Plural form of front-end.

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Examples

  • The ability to stream music and other media, as well as games, to the front-ends around the house

    MythTV and Me 2009

  • Bonus: privacy improvement, as there's a lot about Adobe that makes me classify their plugins and other free user front-ends as unmitigated spyware.

    Adobe Reader Warning Judy 2010

  • Or is a back-end service enough, allowing applications to serve as front-ends, exclusively?

    Scripting News for 6/22/2007 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • We are currently building government gateway that will sit between front-ends such as citizen-friendly portals and back-ends such as legacy agency systems.

    GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNET Alex Allan 2009

  • It's database front-ends by the numbers, no creativity required.

    Yay! yuki_onna 2009

  • Third, give Cho a break, it's nearly impossible to show the rear-end and both front-ends at the same time unless She-Hulk was posing in front of a mirror.

    Judging (Marvel’s May) Books By Their Covers | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • Obviously the analogy breaks down when you get to what's now possible that wasn't before multiple front-ends, one backend for instance but you know what?

    Streaming Mac to 360: Rivet Rogers 2008

  • What should have happened at the national level was simply the drawing up of a standardised communication framework, whilst the actual front-ends systems were left to Trusts based on an eventual goal of integration later on.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Externally I'm focusing on making Gnuplot do my bidding (/me curses python front-ends that haven't been designed in a pythonic way, and so break python's design aim of "principle of least surprise") and other matters related to dealing with my paper in these last 48 hours.

    April 6th, 2004 2004

  • If my kids can create new clothes for Sims 2 and give them to their friends, why wouldn't the same kind of thing happen for, say, virtual world pocket universes implemented as front-ends to Instant Messenger?

    If I give you some money will you stop it? 2005

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