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EIDX Collection of Acronyms and Abbreviations

1-2-3 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ
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

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