Both Uses of
frontier
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He served in the customs in Siberia, somewhere on the Chinese frontier, some puny little beggar of a Pole, I expect.†
Chpt 7 *
- But the boy grows up and becomes an officer; for a duel and other reckless conduct he is exiled to one of the remote frontier towns of Russia.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(frontier as in: the frontier of brain science) the most recent understandings and achievements in a changing field