Appendix Acronyms F

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Acronyms - F

FA Football Association (British soccer - a word derived from Association)

FAA Federal Aviation Agency [US Government]

FACD Foreign Area Customer Dialing

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization [US Government]

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions [Space]

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulations

FAS Foreign Agricultural Service

FAS Free Alongside Ship

FASST Flexible Architecture Standard System Technology

FAST Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer [Space]

FAT Foreign Area Translation

FAX FAcsimile

FB Freight Bill

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation [US Government]

FCC Federal Communications Commission [US Government]

FCC Federal Computer Conference

FCCSET Federal Coordinating Committee for Science, Education and Technology

FCO Field Change Order

FCO Frequency Controlled Oscillator

FCS Frame Check Sequence

FDA Food and Drug Administration [US Government]

FDDI Fiber Digital Data Interface

FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface

FDHD Floppy Drive High Density

FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation [US Government]

FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing

FDR Franklin Delano Roosevelt [US President]

FE Field Engineer (see also CE, SE)

FEA Finite Element Analysis

FEDSIM FEDeral Systems Integration and Management center

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEMF Foreign EMF (q.v.) (a.k.a. Cross Battery) [Telephony]

FEPC Fair Employment Practices Commission

FEPG Federal Engineering Planning Group (of FNC under EOWG, originally of FRICC)

FERS Federal Employees Retirement System

FET Federal Excise Tax

FET Field Effect Transistor

FFA Future Farmers of America

FFT Fast Fourier Transform

FFT Fast Fourier Transform [Space]

FG-A Feature Group A [Telephony] (Line Side termination for LD carriers)

FG-B Feature Group B [Telephony] (Trunk Side termination for LD carriers

FG-D Feature Group D [Telephony] (Trunk Side termination for LD carriers, 1+ service)

FGS Fine Guidance Sensors (on HST) [Space]

FHA Federal Home Administration

FHA Future Homemakers of America

FIB Focused Ion Beam

FICA Federal Insurance Contributions Act

FIDO Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation

FIFO First In First Out (as in registers and buffers)

FILO First In Last Out (see also FIFO)

FIMS Forms Interface Management System

FINE FINE Is Not Emacs

FIO Frequency In and Out

FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard

FIR Far InfraRed [Space]

FIR Finite Impulse Response

FIRMR Federal Information Resource Management Regulation

FIT Federal Information Technologies, inc.

FITS Flexible Image Transport System [Space]

FIX Federal Inter-agency eXchange [Networking]

FL Florida

FLACC Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler

FLL Fixed Loss Loop [Telephony]

FLOP FLoating point OPeration

FLOPS FLoating-point OPerations per Second

FLRA Federal Labor Relations Authority

FM Frequency Modulation

FMB Federal Maritime Board

FMCS Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service

FMR Follow Me Roaming [Telephony]

FMS Financial Management Service (Treasury Dept)

FMS Forms Management System

FNC Federal Networking Council (formerly FRICC) [US Government] (under OSTP)

FO Foreign Office

FO Forward Observer

FOAC Federal Office Automation Center

FOB Free On Board

FOB Full Of Bull (aperiodical of) [TMRC]

FOC Faint Object Camera (on HST) [Space]

FOC Free Of Charge

FOIA Freedom Of Information Act

FOIMS Field Office Information Management System

FOOBAR See FUBAR [Net jargon]

FOR Free On Rail

FORCS Faa's Operational Reporting Communication System

FORD Fix Or Repair Daily [humour]

FORD Found On Road Dead [humour]

FORTRAN FORmula TRANslator

FOS Faint Object Spectrograph (on HST) [Space]

FOSE Federal Office Systems Exposition

FOT Free On Truck

FOV Field Of View

FPA Floating Point Accelerator

FPC Fish Protein Concentrate

FPE Floating Point Engine

FPHA Federal Public Housing Authority

FPLA Field Programmable Logic Array (see PLA)

FPM Feet Per Minute

FPO Field Post Office

FPO Fleet Post Office

Fps Feet Per Second

FPU Floating Point Unit

FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name [TCP/IP] (DNS)

FR Frame Relay [Telephony, Networking]

FRACTAL FRACTional dimensionAL

FRED Fred Resembles Emacs Deliberately

FRG Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

FRICC Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee

FROG Free Rocket Over Ground

FRPG Fantasy Role Playing Game

FRS Federal Reserve System

FS Field Service

FS File System

FS Full Standard

FSF Free Software Foundation

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FSLIC Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation

FSS Federal Supply Service

FSW Forward Swept Wings

Ft Foot

FTAM File Transfer And Management (ISO upscale FTP)

FTC Federal Trade Commission

FTL Faster Than Light

FTP File Transfer Protocol (esp. of the TCP/IP suite)

FTS Federal Telecommunications System [Telephony, US Government]

FTS Flight Telerobotic Servicer [Space]

FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair

FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair

FUSE Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer [Space]

FW Fringeworthy

FWD Front Wheel Drive

FWHM Full Width at Half Maximum [Space]

FX Foriegn eXchange [Telephony]

FY Fiscal Year

FYI For Your Information