| CODE | ABBREVIATION |
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F
| Fahrenheit |
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F&A
| Finance and Accounting / Finance and Administration |
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F/G
| Finished Goods |
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F2F
| Face to face (also meeting in person) / Flesh to Flesh |
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F3I
| Form Fit and Function Interface |
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FA
| Fuse Alarm |
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FA&T
| Final Assembly and Test |
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FAA
| Federal Aviation Administration |
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FABS
| Financial and Administration Business Systems |
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FACS
| Facilities Assignment and Control System |
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FACT
| Federation of Automated Coding Technologies |
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FADU
| File Access Data Unit |
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FAFWOA
| for a friend without access |
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FAIS
| Factory Automation Interconnection System |
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FAL
| File Access Listener |
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FAMOS
| Floating Gate Avalanche MOS |
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FAN
| Facility Area Network |
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FAPL
| Format And Protocols Language |
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FAQ
| Frequently Asked Question(s) (and Answers.) |
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FAQL
| Frequently Asked Questions List |
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FAR
| Federal Acquisition Regulation |
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FARNET
| Federation of American Research Network |
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FAST
| Federation Against Software Theft / First Application System Test |
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FAT
| File Access Table / File Allocation Table |
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FAX
| Facsimile |
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FB
| Files Busy |
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FBE
| Free Buffer Enquiry |
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FBI
| Federal Bureau of Investigations |
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FBOD
| Finance Board of Directors |
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FC
| (modem) Flow Control / Feedback Control / Fiber Channel / Fingers Crossed / Frame Control |
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FCA
| Fiber Channel Association |
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FCAP
| Facility CAPacity |
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FCB
| File Cache Buffer / File Control Block |
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FCC
| Federal Communications Commission / Federal Cracking Consortium / Forward Command Channel |
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FCCSET
| Federal Coordinating Council on Science Engineering and Technology |
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FCG
| False Cross or Ground / Format Computer Graphics |
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FCI
| Frame Copied Indicator (bit) |
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FCIC
| Federal Computer Investigations Committee |
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FCL
| Fibre Channel Loop |
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FCO
| Field Change Order |
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FCR
| First Customer Release |
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FCS
| Fast Circuit Switching / Fiber Channel Standard / File Control System / First Customer Ship / Frame Check Sequence |
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FCSI
| Fiber Channel Systems Initiative |
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FCST
| Forecast |
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FCT
| Fundamentals of Computation Theory |
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FCVC
| Flow Controlled Virtual Circuit |
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FDC
| Floppy Disk Controller |
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FDD
| Floppy Disk Drive |
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FDDI
| Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
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FDHM
| Full Duration Half Maximum |
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FDI
| Feeder/Distribution Interfaces |
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FDL
| Facility Data Link |
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FDM
| Frequency - Division Multiplexing |
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FDMA
| Frequency Division Multiple Access |
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FDP
| Field Development Program |
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FDT
| Formal Description Technique |
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FDX
| Full Duplex |
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FE
| Far End / Far East |
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FEA
| Functional Entity Action / Far East Asia |
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FEAR
| Fu*k Everything And Run or False Evidence Appearing Real |
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FEBE
| Far End Block Error (SONET) |
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FEC
| Foreign Exchange Carrier / Forward Error Correction |
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FECN
| Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (specification) |
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FED
| Far End Data |
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FEDI
| Financial Electronic Data Interchange |
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FED-STD
| Federal Standard |
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FEMF
| Foreign Electro-Motive Force |
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FEP
| Front End Processor |
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FEPG
| Federal Engineering Planning Group |
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FEPS
| Facility and Equipment Planning System |
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FERF
| Far End Receive Failure / Far End Reporting Failure |
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FERPM
| FTAM Error Recovery Protocol Machine |
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FET
| Field - Effect Transistor |
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FETLA
| Further Extended Three Letta Acronym (ie it has five letters.) |
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FEV
| Far End Voice |
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FEXT
| Far - End Cross Talk |
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FF
| Form Feed (ASCII) |
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FFRD
| Flying Fuck in a Rolling Donut (I don't give one) |
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FFS
| For Fu*k's Sake |
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FFT
| Fast Fourier Transform / Final Form Text |
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FFTDCA
| Final Form Text Document Content Architecture |
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FG
| Feature Group (A B C D ) |
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FGA
| Feature Group A |
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FGB
| Feature Group B |
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FGC
| Feature Group C |
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FGD
| Feature Group D |
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FGDC
| Federal Geographic Data Committee |
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FGND
| Frame Ground |
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FHD
| Fixed - Head Disk |
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FHOF
| Freeware Hall of Fame |
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FI
| File Interchange |
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FID
| Format Identifier |
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FIDDO
| Focused Investigation of Document Delivery Options |
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FIF
| Fractal Image Format |
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FIFO
| First In First Out |
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FIGIT
| Follett Implementation Group for Information Technology |
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FIGMO
| Forget It I've Got My Orders |
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FIGS
| Figures Shift |
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FIIN
| Fuc*ed if I Know |
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FIIOH
| Fu*k (or Forget) It I'm Outta Here |
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FIM
| Facing Identification Mark / Fiber Interface Module |
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FIMG
| Finance Industry Marketing Group |
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FIN
| Finish (flag) |
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FINCEN
| (Federal) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (usually as FinCEN) |
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FIOC
| Frame Input/Output Controller |
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FIP
| Facility Interface Processor |
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FIPS
| Federal Information Processing Standards |
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FIR
| Fast InfraRed / Finite Impulse Response |
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FIRE
| Fragmenting IP Real-time Engine (chip) |
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FIRL
| Fiber-optic Inter-Repeater Link |
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FIRM
| First In Releasing Most (Incorrect Acro) |
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FIRST
| Fax Information Retrieval Support Technology / Forum on Incident Response and Security Teams |
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FIS
| Forms Interchange Standard |
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FISG
| Financial Industries Systems Group |
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FISH
| First In Still Here |
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FISUS
| Fill In Signal Units |
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FITB
| Fill In the Blanks |
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FITS
| Flexible Image Transport System |
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Five-O
| Cracking Group - (formerly the Imperial Warlords) |
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FIX
| Federal Information eXchange / Federal Internet eXchange |
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FL
| First Level |
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FLA
| Four/Five Letter Abbreviation (ETLA and DETLA are preferred since they are |
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FLAP
| FDDITalk Link Access Protocol |
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FLETC
| Federal Law Enforcement Training Center |
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FLIH
| First Level Interrupt Handler |
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FLOP
| Floating-Point Operation |
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FLP
| Fast Link Pulse |
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FLT
| Fairlight |
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FM
| Frequency Modulation / Fault Management / Fine Magic / Function Management |
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FMAC
| Facility Maintenance And Control |
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FMAP
| Field Manufacturing Automated Process |
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FMBS
| Frame - Mode Bearer Service |
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FMC
| Financial Management Center |
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FMD
| Function Management Data |
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FMEA
| Failure Modes and Effects Analysis |
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FMIC
| Field Manufacturing Information Center |
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FMMC
| Field Manufacturing Management Committee |
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FMP
| (OpenView) Fault Management Platform / Field Manufacturing Plan |
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FMS
| File Management System |
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FMVFT
| Frequency Modulation Voice Frequency Telegraph |
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FN
| Finish |
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FNAL
| Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
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FNC
| Federal Networking Council |
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FNP
| Front - End Network Processor |
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FNPA
| Foreign Numbering Plan Area |
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FO
| Fiber Optics |
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FOA
| Fiber Optic Adapter / First Office Application |
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FOAD
| F**k Off And Die |
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FOAF
| Friend of a Friend |
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FOAFOAG
| Father of a Friend of a Girlfriend |
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FOAG
| Father of a Girlfriend |
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FOC
| Free Of Charge / Fiber Optic Communications |
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FOCS
| Foundations of Computer Science |
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FOD
| Fax On Demand / Finger Of Death / Format Office Document |
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FOE
| F**king Operator Error |
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FOIA
| Freedom Of Information Act |
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FOIM
| Field Office Information Management (system) |
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FOIRL
| Fiber Optic Inter-Repeater Link |
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FOMAU
| Fiber Optic Medium Attachment Unit |
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FOMC
| Field Operations Management Committee |
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FON
| Fiber Optics Network |
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FOOBAR
| Variant of FUBAR (q.v.) |
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FORTRAN
| FORmula TRANslation/Translator (programming language) |
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FOS
| Full Of Sh*t / Freedom Of Speech / Fundamental Operating System |
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FOSSIL
| Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer |
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FOT
| Frequency of Optimum Traffic / Full of Tripe |
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FOTS
| Fiber Optic Transmission System |
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FOX
| Field Operational X.500 |
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FP
| Functional Profile |
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FPA
| Floating Point Adapter |
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FPASD
| Facsimile Packet ASsembler / Disassembler |
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FPCA
| Functional Programmin languages and Computer Architecture |
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FPCP
| Funky Pack of Cyberpunks |
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FPF
| Facility Parameter Field |
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FPGA
| Field-Programmable Gate Array |
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FPM
| Feet Per Minute |
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FPO
| For Placement Only / For Position Only |
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FPODA
| Fixed Priority Oriented Demand Assignment |
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FPP
| Floating Point Processor |
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FPS
| Floating Point System / Fast Packet Switching / Frames Per Second |
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FPT
| Forced Perfect Termination |
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FPU
| Floating Point Unit (A co-processor that does floating point-non-integer- math) |
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FQDN
| Fully Qualified Domain Name |
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FR
| Flat Rate |
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FRAD
| Frame Relay Access Device |
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FRAM
| Ferroelectric Random Access Memory |
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FRC
| Frame Relay Capabilities |
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FRDS
| Failure Resistant Disk Systems |
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FRE
| Forward and Reverse Engineering |
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FRED
| Fucking Ridiculous Electronic Device |
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FREDMAIL
| FRee EDucational electronic Mail |
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FREE
| FoR Ever & Ever |
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FRF
| Frame Relay Forum |
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FRICC
| Federal Research Internet Coordination Committee |
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FRMR
| Frame Reject |
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FRPS
| Field Reliability Performance Studies |
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FRS
| First Revenue Ship / Flexible Route Selection |
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FRU
| Field Replacement Unit / Field Replaceable Unit |
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FRZ
| Freakin' Religious Zealot |
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FS
| File Separator (ASCII) / Field Service / File Server / Frame Status / Full Scale / Functional Standard |
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FSCE
| Free Solution Capillary Electrophoresis |
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FSCK
| File System ChecK (UNIX command) |
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FSF
| Free Software Foundation |
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FSG
| Financial Systems Group / Format Standard Generalized (markup language) |
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FSK
| Frequency Shift Keying |
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FSL
| Field Service Logistics / Free Space Loss |
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FSM
| Finite State Machine |
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FSN
| Full Service Network |
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FSP
| File Service Process / File Service Protocol |
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FSR
| Free System Resources |
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FSS
| Fully Separated Subsidiary |
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FSTC
| Financial Services Technology Consortium |
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FSTG
| Functional Standardization Taxonomy Group |
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FSU
| File Support Utility |
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FT
| Feet (usually or ' ) / Field Test / File Transfer |
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FT1
| Fractional T1 |
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FTAM
| File Transfer Access and Management (protocol) |
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FTASB
| Faster than a Speeding Bullet |
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FTBOMH
| From The Bottom Of My Heart |
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FTC
| Federal Trade Commission |
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FTDS
| Failure Tolerant Disk Systems |
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FTF
| Face To Face |
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FTG
| Final Trunk Group |
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FTL
| Faster than Light |
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FTP
| File Transfer Protocol [a specific format to exchange files and data - usually also - The name of a program (method) of up/downloading |
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FTPD
| File Transfer Protocol Daemon |
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FTR
| For the record / Full-Text Retrieval |
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FTS
| Federal Telecommunications Service / Federal Telecommunications System / File Transfer Service |
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FTSC
| Federal Telecommunications Standards Committee |
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FTTC
| Fiber To The Curb |
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FTTH
| Fiber To The Home |
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FTTT
| From Time To Time |
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FU
| F**ked Up / Fractional Unit |
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FU2
| Fu*k you too |
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FUA
| Frequently Used Acronyms |
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FUBAR
| Fouled/F**ked Up Beyond All Recognition/Reason/Repair / Failed UniBus Address Register |
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FUBB
| fouled up beyond belief |
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FUCK
| Fools usually get kicked |
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FUD
| (spreading) fear |
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FUMTU
| F*ed up More Than Usual |
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FUNI
| Frame-based User-to-Network Interface / Frame User Network Interface (ATM Forum) |
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FURTB
| Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!) |
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FVC
| First Volume Commit |
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FVIPS
| First Virtual Internet Payment System |
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FWIW
| For What It's Worth |
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FWTW
| For what that's worth |
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FX
| Effects / Foreign eXchange |
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FY
| Fiscal Year |
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FY&TSYRIO
| Fu*k You And The Sysop You Rode In On |
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FYA
| For Your Action / For your amusement |
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FYDITM
| Fu*k You Directly In The Mouth |
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FYE
| For Your Entertainment |
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FYEO
| For Your Eyes Only |
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FYI
| For Your Information |
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FYO
| For Your Opinion |
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FZG
| Folo Zone Gang |