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Being "free" is a broad philosphical concept. Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... For other uses, see Freedom. ...

Nouns

People and organizations

• Free (Abbie Hoffman), a literary pseudonym
• Free (band)
• Free (ISP), a French internet service provider
• Free (rapper)

Abbott Howard Abbie Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was a social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party (Yippies). Later he became a fugitive from the law, who lived under an alias following a conviction for dealing cocaine. ... Free was a British R&B-style rock band which formed in London in 1968 best known for their popular song All Right Now. Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums, while lead guitarist Paul... Free is a French Internet Service Provider (ISP), which is a subsidiary of the Iliad Group. ... Marie Wright a. ...

Abbreviations

• Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, a New York agency serving individuals with developmental disabilities
• Fight Repression of Erotic Expression, a former name of the Queer Student Cultural Center
• Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a Texas think tank founded by Ron Paul
• Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment, an advertising description of the Shenmue game series

The Queer Student Cultural Center (QSCC) is a University sponsored and supported student group on the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities campus that offers cultural programs, educational outreach and social events for students throughout the University Community. ... For other uses, see Shenmue (disambiguation). ...

Popular music

• Free (For Real album)
• Free (Free album)
• Free (Marcus Miller album); includes a song titled "Free"
• Free (Negativland album)
• Free (Rick Astley album)
• Free (Rivermaya album)
• Free... (Acid King EP CD); includes a song titled "Free"
• "Free" (Cat Power song from You Are Free)
• "Free" (Chicago song)
• "Free" (Deniece Williams song)
• "Free" (Erika song)
• "Free" (Phish song from Billy Breathes)
• "Free" (Powerman 5000 song from Transform)
• "Free" (Prince song from 1999)
• "Free" (Stryper song from To Hell with the Devil)
• "Free" (VAST song from Music for People)

Free is the second album by R&B group For Real, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). ... Free is the second album of British rock group Free, recorded and released in 1969. ... Free is an album by Jazz bassist Marcus Miller. ... Back cover Free is a 1993 Negativland album. ... For other uses, see Rick Astley (disambiguation). ... Rivermaya is one of the most influential alternative rock bands in the Philippines that descended from pop and rock explosion of the 90s, propelling the rise of subsequent mainstream rock acts. ... Free. ... You Are Free is the sixth album by the American singer/songwriter Cat Power (a. ... Free is a song written by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their third album Chicago III (1971), with Terry Kath singing lead vocals. ... Free is a popular song by Deniece Williams. ... Free is the first single by Erika Sawajiri under the alias Erika. ... Billy Breathes was the eighth studio album by legendary rock band Phish. ... Transform is an album by metal band Powerman 5000, released in October, 2003. ... 1999 is Princes fifth album, released in October 1982. ... To Hell with the Devil is the fourth release, and third full-length album, from the Christian metal band Stryper, released in 1986 (see 1986 in music). ... Music for People is the most successful V.A.S.T. album to date, the only one to make the Billboard chart and have two charting hits from it. ...

Adjectives

Computing

• Free content
• Freefont, an open font project
• Free software
• Freeware

Free content is any kind of functional work, artwork, or other creative content upon which no legal restriction has been placed that significantly interferes with peoples freedom to use, understand, redistribute, improve, and share the content. ... Free UCS Outline Fonts (also known as freefont) is a project for developing fonts by collecting characters from other free fonts and joining them in one package. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... The term Freeware refers to gratis proprietary software with closed source. ...

Mathematics

• Free object
  • Free abelian group
  • Free algebra
  • Free group
  • Free module
  • Free semigroup
• Free variable

In mathematics, the idea of a free object is one of the basic concepts of abstract algebra. ... In abstract algebra, a free abelian group is an abelian group that has a basis in the sense that every element of the group can be written in one and only one way as a finite linear combination of elements of the basis, with integer coefficients. ... In abstract algebra, a free algebra is the noncommutative analogue of a polynomial ring. ... The Cayley graph of the free group on two generators a and b In mathematics, a group G is called free if there is a subset S of G such that any element of G can be written in one and only one way as a product of finitely many... In mathematics, a free module is a module having a free basis. ... In abstract algebra, the free monoid on a set A is the monoid whose elements are all the finite sequences (or strings) of zero or more elements from A, with the binary operation of concatenation. ... In mathematics, and in other disciplines involving formal languages, including mathematical logic and computer science, a free variable is a notation for a place or places in an expression, into which some definite substitution may take place, or with respect to which some operation (summation or quantification, to give two...

Society

• Free education
• Free jazz
• Free (zero-fare) public transport
• Free will

Free education is a policy stance in politics that ensures education for its citizens up to a certain level. ... This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Zero-fare public transport services are funded in full by means other than collecting a fare from passengers. ... Free-Will is a Japanese independent record label founded in 1986. ...

Verbs

• Free, to emancipate someone or something
• Free (programming), to release dynamically allocated memory for reuse

For other uses, see Emancipation (disambiguation). ... In computing, malloc is a subroutine provided in the C programming languages standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation. ...

See also

• Gratis versus Libre, a dichotomy illustrated by the phrase "free as in speech, not as in beer"

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