adjective
- Not closed
- Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended
- Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
- Receptive.
- Public
- Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
- (of a formula) Having a free variable.
- (of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X.
- (of a walk) Whose first and last vertices are different.
- (of a file, document, etc.) In current use; mapped to part of memory.
- Not fulfilled.
- Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
- (stringed instruments) Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard.
- (wind instruments) Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve.
- Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
- (Of correspondence) Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. (Opposite of "without prejudice")
- Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
- Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
- (of a syllable) That ends in a vowel; not having a coda.
- Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components.
- Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body.
Synonyms: free, accessible, unimpeded, free
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