| FA |
Failure Analysis |
| FA |
Final Assembly |
| FA |
First Article |
|
FA |
Functional Acknowledgment |
| FACT |
Federation of Automated Coding
Technologies |
| FASB |
Financial Accounting
Standards Board |
| FAST |
Final Assembly and Test |
| FAST |
Forecasting and Assessment in
Science and Technology |
| FAT |
File Allocation Table |
|
fax |
Facsimile machine |
| FBP |
Factory Base Price |
|
FC |
Forecast |
| FC |
Frame Control, FDDI |
| FC-AL |
Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop |
| FC-PH |
Fibre Channel Physical and
Signalling standard ANSI X3.230 |
| FC-SCSI |
Fibre Channel-to-SCSI |
|
FCC |
Federal Communications Commission |
| FCFP |
Fibre Channel Functional Profile |
| FCFPS |
Free Cash Flow Per
Share |
| FCI |
Flux Changes per Inch |
| FCP |
Fibre Channel Protocol |
| FCRC |
Federal Contract Research
Centers |
| FCS |
Frame Check Sequence |
| FCSI |
Fibre Channel Systems Initiative,
joint industry |
| FCT |
FunCtional Test |
| FDD |
Flexible Disc Drive |
|
FDDI |
Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
|
FDIC |
Federal Deposit Insurace
Corporation |
| FDL |
Focus Design Location |
| FDM |
Frequency Division Multiplex |
| FDMA |
Frequency Division Multiple Access |
| FDT |
Formal Description Techniques |
| FE |
Field Engineer |
| FE |
Finite Element |
| FEA |
Finite Element Analysis |
|
FEBE |
Front-End/Back-End |
| FEN |
Failure Event Notification |
| FERC |
Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission |
| FET |
Federal Excise Tax |
| FET |
Field Effect Transistors |
| FF&E |
Furniture,
Fixtures & Equipment |
| FFO |
Funds From Operation |
| FFR |
Federal Funds Rate |
| FFR |
Field Failure Rate |
| FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
FGI |
Finished Goods Inventory |
| FGP |
Finished Goods Process |
| FI |
FInancial accounting module, SAP
R/3 |
|
FIFO |
First In, First Out, a queuing
algorithm |
| FinXML |
Financial
XML |
| FIPS |
Federal Information Processing
Standard |
| FIRA |
Flexible IRA |
| FIRS |
Federal Information Relay Service |
| FIS |
Financial Information System |
|
FISA |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act, U.S. |
| FIT |
Failures in Time |
| FIT |
File Information Table |
| FIT |
Financial Information Transformer |
| FIT |
Functional Interface Translator |
|
FITB |
Fill In The Blank |
| FIX |
Financial
Information Exchange protocol |
| FLA |
Four/five Letter Acronym |
| FLAG |
Fiber-optic Link Around the Globe |
| FLEA |
Four Letter Extended Acronym |
| FLEX |
File EXchange System |
| FLM |
Field Logistics Manager |
| FLM |
Fixture Loading Mechanism |
| FLOPS |
Floating Point Operations Per
Second |
| FLW |
Free Lance Graphics for Windows |
| FM |
Factory Mutual |
|
FM |
Frequency Modulation |
| FMC |
Federal Maritime Commission |
| FMEA |
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis |
| FMP |
Functional Management Program |
| FMS |
Facilties Management System |
| FMS |
Factory Management System |
| FMS |
Flexible Machining System |
| FMS |
Flexible Manufacturing System |
| FMT |
Functional Management Team |
| FMV |
Fair Market Value |
|
FOB |
Free On Board |
| FOB |
Freight On Board |
| FOCUS |
Flexible Optical Control Unit
Stimulator |
| FOI |
Field of Interest |
| FOP |
Factory Order Processing |
| FOP |
Formatting-Object Parser |
| FORTH |
FORmula THreader |
| FORTRAN |
FORmula TRANslation |
| FOS |
Fundamental Operating System |
| FOX |
Financial Online eXecutive |
| FP |
Financial Planner |
| FP |
Flat Pack |
| FP |
Floating Point |
| FPA |
Floating Point Accelerator |
| FPGA |
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays |
| FPLA |
Field Programmable Logic Array |
| FPM |
Field Production Management |
| FpML |
Financial
Products Markup Language |
| FPO |
Fleet Post Office |
| FPROM |
Field Programmable ROM |
| FPT |
Fine Pitch Technology |
| FRI |
Fast Rate Input |
| FRIC |
Frame Relay Interface Card |
| FRS |
Federal Relay Service |
| FRU |
Field Replaceable Unit |
| FSA |
Flexible Spending Account |
| FSF |
Free Software Foundation |
| FSK |
Frequency Shift Keying |
| FSL |
Field Stocking Location |
| FSLIC |
Federal Savings and Loans
Insurance Company |
| FSN |
Full Service Network |
|
FSP |
Financial Service Provider |
|
FSP |
Full Service Provider |
|
FSTC |
Financial
Services Technology Consortium |
| FT1 |
Fractional T1 |
| FTAM |
File Transfer Access Mechanism |
| FTAM |
File Transfer, Access, and
Management |
|
FTC |
Federal Trade Commission |
| FTIR |
Fourier Transform Infrared
Spectroscopy |
| FTM |
Functional Test Manager, software
for Series 200/300 |
|
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol, user level
networking standard |
| FTS |
Federal Telecommunications System |
| FTS |
Financial Transaction Switch |
| FTTOR |
First Time Turn On Rate |
| FTX |
Fault-Tolerant UNIX system-based
operating system. |
| FUNACK |
FUNctional ACKnowledgment message,
EDIFACT |
| FWD |
Fast Wide Differential, SCSI |
| FX |
Foreign eXchange |
|
FY |
Fiscal Year |
| FYE |
Fiscal
Year End |