FR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fr mean? 

• FR (noun)
  The noun FR has 1 sense:

1. a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium

  Familiarity information: FR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 87; Fr; francium

Hypernyms ("Fr" is a kind of...):

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

 Context examples 

To speak about electromagnetic waves I have Frédérique Ries with me who is writing a report on the subject.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Domain names must have at least 2 parts: the part on the left which names the organization, and the part on the right which identifies the highest subdomain, such as the country (e.g., fr for France, uk for United Kingdom) or the type of organization (e.g., com for commercial, edu for educational).

(Domain Name, NCI Thesaurus)

This discovery allowed a team led by Frédéric Vogt, an ESO Fellow in Chile, to track down the first ever isolated neutron star with low magnetic field located beyond our own Milky Way galaxy.

(Dead Star Circled by Light, ESO)