The Hacker Acronym & Abbreviation Knowledgebase v2.14
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| F2F | Face-to-Face | ||||||
| F3I | Form, Fit, and Function Interface | ||||||
| FA | Fuse Alarm | ||||||
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Federal Aviation Administration | |||||
| FACS | Facilities Assignment and Control System | ||||||
| FACS | Firmware ACPI Control Structure | ||||||
| FACT | Federation of Automated Coding Technologies | ||||||
| FADT | Fixed ACPI Description Table | ||||||
| FADU | File Access Data Unit | ||||||
| FAIS | Factory Automation Interconnection System | ||||||
| FAL | File Access Listener | ||||||
| FAN | Facility Area Network | ||||||
| FAP | Fair Access Policy | ||||||
| FAPL | Format And Protocols Language | ||||||
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
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| FAQL | Frequently Asked Questions List |
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| FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulation | ||||||
| FARNET | Federation of American Research Networks |
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Federation of American Scientists |
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| FASB | |
Financial Accounting Standards Board |
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| FASC | |
Federal Agency SmartCard |
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| FASCN | |
Federal Agency SmartCard Number (usually as FASC-N) |
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| FASC-N | |
Federal Agency SmartCard Number |
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| FAST | |
(Microsoft) Files and Settings Transfer (wizard) |
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| FAST | |
Federation Against Software Theft |
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| FAST | First Application System Test | ||||||
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Fully Automated Storage Tiering |
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| FAT | File Access Table / File Allocation Table | ||||||
| FAX | Facsimile | ||||||
| FBCA | |
[U.S.] Federal Bridge Certification Authority |
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| FBE | |
Framework Based Environment | |||||
| FBE | Free Buffer Enquiry | ||||||
| FBI | |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
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| FBI | |
Freaker's Bureau Inc. |
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| FBIS | |
Foreign Broadcast Information Service |
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| FC | (modem) Flow Control | ||||||
| FC | Feedback Control | ||||||
| FC | Fiber Channel / Fibre Channel | ||||||
| FC | Frame Control | ||||||
| FCA | Fiber Channel Association | ||||||
| FC-AL | Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop | ||||||
| FCAP | Facility CAPacity | ||||||
| FCB | File Cache Buffer | ||||||
| FCB | File Control Blocks | ||||||
| FCC | |
Federal Communications Commission |
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| FCC | Forward Command Channel | ||||||
| FCCSET | |
Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology | |||||
| FCFS | Fibre Channel Framing and Signaling | |
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| FCFS | First Come First Served (algorithm) | |
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| FCG | False Cross or Ground | ||||||
| FCG | Format Computer Graphics | ||||||
| FCI | Frame Copied Indicator (bit) | ||||||
| FCIC | |
Federal Computer Investigations Committee | |||||
| FCO | Field Change Order | ||||||
| FCOE | |
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (usually as FCoE) | |
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| FCP | Fibre Channel Protocol | ||||||
| FCPA | |
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act | |
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| FCS | Fast Circuit Switching | ||||||
| FCS | Fiber Channel Standard | ||||||
| FCS | File Control System | ||||||
| FCS | Frame Check | ||||||
| FCSI | Fiber Channel Systems Initiative | ||||||
| FCT | Fundamentals of Computation Theory | ||||||
| FCVC | Flow Controlled Virtual Circuit | ||||||
| FD | File Definition | ||||||
| FD | Flat Display | ||||||
| FDA | |
(U.S.) Food and Drug Administration |
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| FDC | Floppy Disk Controller | ||||||
| FDD | Feature Driven Development | ||||||
| FDD | Floppy Disk Drive | ||||||
| FDD | Frequency-Division Duplex | ||||||
| FDD | Functional Design Document | |
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| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface | |
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| FDHM | Full Duration Half Maximum | ||||||
| FDIC | |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | |||||
| FDL | |
[GNU] Free Documentation License | |
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| FDL | Facility Data Link | ||||||
| FDM | Frequency - Division Multiplexing | ||||||
| FDMA | Frequency Division, Multiple Access | ||||||
| FDO | Functional Device Object | ||||||
| FDP | Field Development Program | ||||||
| FDR | Failures-Divergence Refinement | ||||||
| FDT | Formal Description Technique | ||||||
| FDX | Full Duplex | ||||||
| FE | Far End | ||||||
| FEA | Finite Element Analysis | ||||||
| FEA | Functional Entity Action | ||||||
| FEBE | Far End Block Error (SONET) | ||||||
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Federal Election Commission | |
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| FEC | Forward Error Correction | ||||||
| FEC | Forwarding Equivalence Class | |
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| FECN | Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (specification) | ||||||
| FED | Far End Data | ||||||
| FEDI | Financial Electronic Data Interchange | ||||||
| FEDRAMP | |
Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (usually as FedRAMP) | |||||
| FED-STD | |
Federal Standard | |
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| FEI | |
Foundation for Educational Innovation | |
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| FEMA | |
Federal Emergency Management Agency | |||||
| FEMF | Foreign Electro-Motive Force | ||||||
| FEP | Front End Processor | ||||||
| FEPG | Federal Engineering Planning Group | ||||||
| FEPS | Facility and Equipment Planning System | ||||||
| FERC | |
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | |||||
| FERF | Far End Receive Failure | ||||||
| FERPA | |
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act | |||||
| FERPM | FTAM Error Recovery Protocol Machine | ||||||
| FET | Field - Effect Transistor | ||||||
| FETLA | Further Extended Three Letter Acronym |
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| FEV | Far End Voice | ||||||
| FEXT | Far - End Cross Talk | ||||||
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[Mozilla] Firefox (browser) | |
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| FF | Form Feed (ASCII) | ||||||
| FFD | Free-Form Deformation | ||||||
| FFS | Fee For Service | ||||||
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform | ||||||
| FFT | Final Form Text | ||||||
| FFTDCA | Final Form Text Document Content Architecture | ||||||
| FG | Feature Group (A, B, C, D) | ||||||
| FG | Frame Ground | ||||||
| FG | Functional Group | |
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| FGDC | |
Federal Geographic Data Committee | |
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| FGND | Frame Ground | ||||||
| FH | Fiber Hub | ||||||
| FHD | Fixed - Head Disk | ||||||
| FHP | |
Federation of Hackers and Pheakers | |||||
| FHSS | Frequency-Hopping Spread-Spectrum | ||||||
| FI | File Interchange | ||||||
| FICON | |
Fiber CONnections (technology) | |||||
| FID | Field Identifier | ||||||
| FID | Format Identifier | ||||||
| FIFO | First In First Out | ||||||
| FIGS | Figures Shift | ||||||
| FIH | Foreign Interface Harness | ||||||
| FILO | First In Last Out | |
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| FIM | |
Facing Identification Mark | |||||
| FIM | Fiber Interface Module | ||||||
| FIN | Finish (flag) | ||||||
| FINCEN | |
(Federal) Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (usually as FinCEN) | |||||
| FIOC | Frame Input / Output Controller | ||||||
| FIP | Facility Interface Processor | ||||||
| FIPP | |
International Federation of the Periodical Press | |
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| FIPS | |
Federal Information Processing Standard | |||||
| FIR | Fast Infrared | ||||||
| FIR | Finite Impulse Response | |
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| FIRE | |
Fragmenting IP Real-time Engine (chip) | |
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| FIRL | Fiber-optic Inter-Repeater Link | ||||||
| FIRS | Federated Internet Registry Service | ||||||
| FIRST | |
Fax Information Retrieval Support Technology | |||||
| FIRST | |
Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications and Tolerances | |||||
| FIRST | Forum on Incident Response and Security Teams | ||||||
| FIS | Forms Interchange Standard | ||||||
| FIS | Frame Information Structure | ||||||
| FISA | |
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act | |||||
| FISMA | |
Federal Information Security Management Act (of 2002) | |||||
| FISUS | Fill In Signal Units | ||||||
| FIT | |
Friends In Touch | |
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| FITS | |
Flexible Image Transport System (file format) |
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Functional Interpolating Transformational System (file format) |
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| FIX | |
Federal Information eXchange / Federal Internet eXchange | |||||
| FIX | |
Financial Information eXchange |
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| FK | Foreign Key | ||||||
| FL | First Level | ||||||
| FL | Fuzzy Logic | ||||||
| FLA | Five Letter Abbreviation / Five Letter Acronym |
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| FLA | Four Letter Abbreviation / Four Letter Acronym |
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| FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec | ||||||
| FLAP | FDDITalk Link Access Protocol | ||||||
| FLASK | |
Flux Advanced Security Kernel | |
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| FLD | Framework for Logic Dialect | |
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| FLETC | |
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center | |||||
| FLIH | First Level Interrupt Handler | ||||||
| FLMPTS | Future Land Mobile Personal Telephone Service | ||||||
| FLOSS | Free/Libre/Open-Source Software | ||||||
| FLP | Fast Link Pulse | ||||||
| FLT | |
Fairlight | |||||
| FM | Fault Management | ||||||
| FM | Formal Methods | ||||||
| FM | Frequency Modulation | ||||||
| FM | Function Management | ||||||
| FMA | Federated Management Architecture | ||||||
| FMAC | Facility Maintenance And Control | ||||||
| FMBS | Frame - Mode Bearer Service | ||||||
| FMD | Fluorescent Multilayer Disc | ||||||
| FMD | Function Management Data | ||||||
| FMNP | Full Mobile Number Portability | ||||||
| FMP | |
(OpenView) Fault Management Platform | |||||
| FMS | File Management System | ||||||
| FMV | Fair Market Value | ||||||
| FMVFT | Frequency Modulation Voice Frequency Telegraph | ||||||
| FN | Finish | ||||||
| FN | Foreign National | ||||||
| FNC | |
Federal Networking Council | |
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| FNP | Front - End Network Processor | |
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| FNPA | Foreign Numbering Plan Area | ||||||
| FO | Fiber Optics | ||||||
| FOA | Fiber Optic Adapter | ||||||
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Fiber Optic Association | |
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| FOAF | Friend Of A Friend |
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| FOC | Fiber Optic Communications | ||||||
| FOC | Firm Order Confirmation | ||||||
| FOCS | Foundations of Computer Science | ||||||
| FOD | Fax On Demand | ||||||
| FOD | |
Finger Of Death | |||||
| FOD | Format Office Document | ||||||
| FOIA | |
Freedom Of Information Act |
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| FOIM | |
Field Office Information Management system | |||||
| FOIP | Fax Over Internet Protocol (sometimes as FoIP) |
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| FOIRL | Fiber Optic Inter-Repeater Link | ||||||
| FOLDOC | |
Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing |
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| FOLS | |
[TIA] Fiber Optic LAN Section | |||||
| FOMAU | Fiber Optic Medium Attachment Unit | ||||||
| FOMO | Fear Of Missing Out (sometimes as FoMo) |
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| FON | Fiber Optic Network | ||||||
| FOP | Formatting Objects Processor | ||||||
| FOPG | |
FNC (Federal Networking Council) OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) Planning Group | |||||
| FOR | File Owning Region | |
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| FORTRAN | Formula Translator (programming language) | |
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| FOS | Fundamental Operating System | ||||||
| FOSI | |
Family Online Safety Institute | |
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| FOSS | Free and Open Source Software (sometimes as F/OSS) | ||||||
| FOSSIL | Fido/Opus/Seadog Standard Interface Layer | ||||||
| FOT | Frequency of Optimum Traffic | ||||||
| FOTS | Fiber Optic Transmission System | ||||||
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For Official Use Only |
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| FOV | Field Of View | ||||||
| FOX | Field Operational X.500 | ||||||
| FP | Functional Profile | ||||||
| FPA | Floating Point Adapter | ||||||
| FPASD | Facsimile Packet ASsembler / Disassembler | ||||||
| FPCA | Functional Programming languages and Computer Architecture | ||||||
| FPD | Flat Panel Display | ||||||
| FPF | Facility Parameter Field | ||||||
| FPGA | Field-Programmable Gate Array | ||||||
| FPI | Floating-Point Interface | ||||||
| FPI | Formal Public Identifier | ||||||
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[U.S.] Federal PKI Policy Authority |
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| FPM | Feet Per Minute | ||||||
| FPO | For Placement Only / For Position Only | ||||||
| FPODA | Fixed Priority Oriented Demand Assignment | ||||||
| FPP | Floating Point Processor | |
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| FPS | Fast Packet Switching | |
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| FPS | First Person Shooter (game) | ||||||
| FPS | Frames-Per-Second | ||||||
| FPSNW | File and Print Service for NetWare | ||||||
| FPU | Floating Point Unit | ||||||
| FQDN | Fully Qualified Domain Name | ||||||
| FQFP | Fine pitch Quad Flat Package |
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| FR | Flat Rate | ||||||
| FR | Frame Relay | ||||||
| FRAD | Frame Relay Access Device | ||||||
| FRAD | Frame Relay Assembler / Disassembler | ||||||
| FRAND | Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory | ||||||
| FRC | Frame Relay Capabilities | ||||||
| FRCA | Fast Response Cache Accelerator | ||||||
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Failure Resistant Disk Systems | |||||
| FREAK | Factoring RSA Export Keys (attack) |
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| FREDMAIL | FRee EDucational electronic Mail | ||||||
| FREE | |
Forum for Responsible and Ethical E-mail |
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| FRF | Frame Relay Forum | ||||||
| FRICC | |
Federal Research Internet Coordination Committee | |||||
| FRL | Finland-Russia Line | ||||||
| FRMR | Frame Reject | ||||||
| FRN | |
FCC Registration Number | |||||
| FROG | Finnish-Russian Optical Gateway | |
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| FRS | File Replication Service | |
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| FRS | Flexible Route Selection | ||||||
| FRS | Frame Relay Service | ||||||
| FRSTN | Fast Response Super Twisted Nematic |
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| FRU | Field Replacement Unit / Field Replaceable Unit | ||||||
| FS | Field Service | ||||||
| FS | File Separator (ASCII) | ||||||
| FS | File Server / File System | ||||||
| FS | Frame Status | ||||||
| FS | Full Scale | ||||||
| FS | Functional Standard | ||||||
| FSB | Front Side Bus | ||||||
| FSC | |
Forest Stewardship Council |
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| FSCE | Free Solution Capillary Electrophoresis | ||||||
| FSF | |
Free Software Foundation |
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| FSFE | |
Free Software Foundation Europe |
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| FSG | Format Standard Generalized markup language | ||||||
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Free Standards Group | |
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| FSIOP | |
File Server Input Output Processor | |||||
| FSK | Frequency Shift Keying | ||||||
| FSL | Field Service Logistics | ||||||
| FSL | Free Space Loss | ||||||
| FSM | Finite State Machine | ||||||
| FSP | File Service Process | |
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| FSR | Free System Resources | |
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| FSRAM | Fast Static Random Access Memory | ||||||
| FSS | Fully Separated Subsidiary | ||||||
| FSTC | |
Financial Services Technology Consortium | |||||
| FSTG | Functional Standardization Taxonomy Group | ||||||
| FSTN | Filtered Super Twisted Nematic / Film-compensated Super Twisted Nematic |
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| FSU | File Support Utility | ||||||
| FT | Feet (usually ft or ' ) | ||||||
| FT | Field Test | ||||||
| FT | File Transfer | ||||||
| FT1 | Fractional T1 | ||||||
| FTA | |
Flexographic Technical Association | |||||
| FTAA | Free Trade Agreement for the Americas | ||||||
| FTAM | |
File Transfer, Access, and Management (protocol) | |||||
| FTASB | Faster Than A Speeding Bullet | ||||||
| FTBOMH | From The Bottom Of My Heart | ||||||
| FTC | |
Federal Trade Commission | |||||
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Failure Tolerant Disk Systems | |||||
| FTE | Full-Time Equivalent | ||||||
| FTF | Face To Face | ||||||
| FTG | Final Trunk Group | ||||||
| FTL | Faster Than Light | ||||||
| FTL | Flash Translation Layer | ||||||
| FTL | Follow The Link | |
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| FTP | |
File Transfer Protocol (RFC 959) | |
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| FTR | Full-Text Retrieval | ||||||
| FTS | Federal Telecommunications Service / Federal Telecommunications System | ||||||
| FTS | File Transfer Service | ||||||
| FTSC | |
Federal Telecommunications Standards Committee | |||||
| FTTB | Fiber To The Basement / Fiber To The Building | |
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| FTTC | Fiber To The Curb | |
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| FTTD | Fiber To The Desk | |
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| FTTH | Fiber-To-The-Home | ||||||
| FTTN | Fiber To The Node | |
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| FTTP | Fiber-To-The-Premises | ||||||
| FTW | For The Win | ||||||
| FU | Fractional Unit | ||||||
| FUA | Force Unit Access | ||||||
| FUBAR | Failed UniBus Address Register | ||||||
| FUBAR | Fouled Up Beyond All Repair | ||||||
| FUD | Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt / Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation | ||||||
| FUD | Fully Undetectable |
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| FUNI | Frame-based User-to-Network Interface / Frame User Network Interface (ATM Forum) | ||||||
| FURI | Future of Uniform Resource Identifiers | ||||||
| FVC | First Volume Commit | ||||||
| FW | FireWall | ||||||
| FWA | Fixed Wireless Access | ||||||
| FWIW | For What It's Worth | |
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| FWM | FirmWare Monitor (communications) | |
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| FX | Effects | ||||||
| FX | Foreign eXchange | ||||||
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File eXchange Protocol (RFC 959) | |
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| FY | Fiscal Year | ||||||
| FYA | For Your Amusement | ||||||
| FYE | For Your Entertainment | ||||||
| FYEO | For Your Eyes Only | ||||||
| FYI | For Your Information | ||||||
