@c -*-texinfo-*- @c This is part of the GNU edition of V.E.R.A. @c Copyright (C) 1993/2020 Oliver Heidelbach @c See the file vera.texi for copying conditions. @c @c Syntax: @c ACRONYM @c Expansion[ (Reference)][, "Style"] @c Additional explanations are included in [square brackets] @table @asis @item F2C FORTRAN to C [converter] @item F2F Frequency - Double Frequency @item F2FS Flash-Friendly File System (Linux, Samsung, FS), "F2fs" @item FA FernmeldeAmt (DTAG) @item FAA Flow Admission Acknowledge [message] (LFAP) @item FAAS Function As A Service, "FaaS" @item FABS Fast Access Btree Structure @item FAC Final Assembly Code (IMEI, GSM, mobile-systems) @item FACCH Fast Associated Control CHannel (GSM, DCCH, mobile-systems) @item FACE Framed Access Command Environment (Unix, SVR4) @item FACS Firmware ACPI Control Structure (ACPI) @item FADOS Fast Amsterdam Distributed (???) Operating System (OS, FAMP) @item FADT Fixed ACPI Description Table (ACPI) @item FADU File Access Data Unit (FTAM) @item FAE Field Application Engineer @item FAG FernmeldeAnlagenGesetz telecommunication, Germany @item FAI Fully Automatic Installation @item FAID Flash Authority Identification Data (EEPROM) @item FAIS Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (org., Finland, AI) @item FAL File Abstraction Layer (TYPO3) @item FAL File Access Listener (DEC, DNA) @item FAME FORMEX Applied to Multilingualism in Europe (SGML, Europe) @item FAMOS Floating gate Avalanche injection Metal Oxide Semiconductor (IC) @item FAMP Fast Amsterdam MultiProcessor @item FANP Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (Toshiba, RFC 2129) @item FAP Flight Attendant Panel (Airbus, A380, CIDS, LCD) @item FAPI Family Application Programmer Interface (DOS, VDM, API) @item FAQ Frequently Asked Questions (slang, Usenet) @item FAR False Acception Rate @item FAR Fixed Alternative Routing (SNI) @item FAR Flow Admission Request [message] (LFAP) @item FARE Film Automatic Retouching and Enhancement (Canon, Scanner) @item FARNET Federation of American Research NETworks (network) @item FAS Flow Admission Service @item FASMI Fast Analysis of Shared Multidimensional Information (OLAP) @item FAST Fast ARM Solutions Toolkit (ARM, Palm, PDA) @item FAST First Application System Test @item FAST Forschungsinstitut fuer Angewandte Software-Technologie [e.v.] (org.) @item FASTA FAhrzeugbetriebs- und Servicedaten-Transfer und -Analyse (BMW) @item FAT File Allocation Table (DOS, FS) @item FATA Fibre-Attached Technology Adapted (HP, SATA, HDD) @item FAU Flow Admission Update [message] (LFAP) @item FAU Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet (org., Erlangen, Germany, Nuernberg, Germany) @item FAW Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (org., KI, Ulm) @item FAXP FAX Profile (Bluetooth, SPP), "FaxP" @item FB Fiber optic Backbone @item FBAS FarbBild-AustastSystem / Farb-Bild-Austast-Synchron-signal (video) @item FBDIMM Fully Buffered Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM, IC, RAM), "FB-DIMM" @item FBL Frame Burst error Length (CD) @item FBM Flexible Buffer Management (QMS) @item FBPP Federal Biometeric Protection Profile (NIAP) @item FBS Flexible Bandwidth Service (ATM, SDH) @item FC Federal Criteria [for information technology security] (NIST, USA) @item FC Feedback Control @item FC Fibre Channel (FC) @item FC Force Close (Android) @item FC Frame Control (FDDI, Token Ring) @item FCA Flow Control Ack (DLSW) @item FCAL Fibre Channel - Arbitrated Loop, "FC-AL" @item FCAPS Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security [management areas] @item FCB File Control Block (DOS) @item FCBB Fibre Channel BackBone (FCP), "FC-BB" @item FCBS File Control BlockS (DOS) @item FCC Fast Communication Controller (SCC, MCC) @item FCC Federal Communications Commission (org., USA) @item FCC Forward Carbon Copy (telecommunication) @item FCCH Frequency Correction CHannel (GSM, mobile-systems) @item FCCN Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional (org., Portugal) @item FCD Floating Car Data @item FCDAE Fibre Channel Disk Array Enclosure (FC), "FC-DAE" @item FCFS First Come, First Served @item FCGC Flight Control and Guidance Computer (Airbus, A380) @item FCGS4 Fibre Channel Generic Service 4 (FC, SAN, ANSI), "FC-GS-4" @item FCH Frame Control Channel (HiperLAN/2) @item FCI Fibre Channel Interface @item FCI Flow Control Indicator (DLSW) @item FCI Forward Cache Identifier (CATNIP) @item FCIA Fibre Channel Industry Association (org.) @item FCIP Fibre Channel over Internet Protocol (SAN, FC, IP) @item FCL Framework Class Library (MS, .NET) @item FCMI Fibre Channel Methodology for Interconnects (FC, SAN, ANSI), "FC-MI" @item FCO Flow Control Operator Bits (DLSW, BIT) @item FCOE Fibre Channel Over Ethernet, "FCoE" @item FCOS Flip Chip on Substrate @item FCP [SCSI-3] Fibre Channel Protocol (SAM) @item FCPGA Flip Chip Pin Grid Array (IC, CPU), "FC-PGA" @item FCPH Fibre Channel PHysical and signaling interface (SAM), "FC-PH" @item FCR Flow Change Request [message] (LFAP) @item FCS Fast Circuit Switching @item FCS First Customer Ship (IBM) @item FCS Frame Check Sequence (FDDI, Token Ring) @item FCS Frame Check Sum (MODEM) @item FCSAN Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (FC, SAN) @item FCSC Flight Control Secondary Computer (Airbus, A380) @item FDA FORTRAN Design Aid (FORTRAN) @item FDAD Functional Data ADministrator @item FDC Floppy Disk Controller (FDD) @item FDCC Federal Desktop Core Configuration (NVD, SCAP) @item FDCT Fast Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) @item FDD Floppy Disk Drive @item FDD Frequency Division Duplex (mobile-systems) @item FDDI Fiber Distributed Data Interface (ANSI, ISO 8314) @item FDDITPPMD FDDI Twisted Pair-Physical layer, Medium Dependent, "FDDI TP-PMD" @item FDE Full Duplex Ethernet (ethernet) @item FDES Full Duplex EtherSwitch (Kalpana) @item FDI [fachverband der ] Fuehrungskraefte der Druckindustrie und Informationsverarbeitung (org.) @item FDIS Final Draft International Standard (MPEG) @item FDL File Definition Language @item FDL Free Documentation License (GNU) @item FDM Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM) @item FDM Fused Deposition Modelling @item FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems) @item FDMI Flat Display Mounting Interface (VESA, MIS) @item FDO Functional Device Object @item FDSN Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks (org.) @item FDT Formal Description Technique @item FDTDMA Frequency Division/Time Division Multiple Access (mobile-systems, GSM), "FD/TDMA" @item FDX Full DupleX @item FE Focus Error (DVD) @item FE Forschung und Entwicklung, "F&E" @item FE Functional Entity (IN) @item FEA Functional Entity Action (IN, UNI) @item FEAL Fast Data Encipherment Algorithm (DES, cryptography) @item FEAST Fast Data Enciphering Algorithm (cryptography) @item FEBE Far End Block Error (SONET) @item FEC Forward Error Correction (GSM, mobile-systems) @item FECN Forward Explicit Congestion Notification (ATM) @item FEDRAMP FEDeral Risk and Authorization Management Program (USA), "FedRAMP" @item FEFCO ??? @item FEIT Fujitsu Enhanced Imaging Technology (Fujitsu) @item FEK File Encryption Key (cryptography) @item FEM Fabric Expander Module (Dell, FSE) @item FEM Finite Elemente Methode @item FEN Free-net Erlangen/Nuernberg @item FEP Firewall Enhancement Protocol (RFC 3093) @item FEP Flight Envelope Protection (Airbus, A380) @item FEP Front End Processor @item FER Forward Error Correction (satellite) @item FERF Far End Receive Failure (UNI, ATM, SONET, OAM) @item FESI Federacion Espanola de Sociedades de Informatica (org., Spain) @item FET Field Effect Transistor @item FF Form(ular) Feed @item FFAPI File Format API (MS, API) @item FFC Fully Formed Character [printer] @item FFDC First Failure Data Capture @item FFDT FDDI Full Duplexing Technology (FDDI) @item FFF Fused Filament Fabrication @item FFFS Failsafe Flash File System (FS, Flash), "F3S" @item FFII Foerderverein fuer Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur (org.) @item FFOL FDDI Follow-On-LAN @item FFS Fallback Fault-tolerant Server (IBM, OS/2) @item FFS Fast File System (Unix, Amiga, Commodore) @item FFS Fast Filing System (BSD, Unix) @item FFS Flexible Fertigungs-Systeme @item FFST2 First Failure Support Technology /2 (IBM), "FFST/2" @item FFT Final Form Text @item FGA Future Graphics Adapter (Spea) @item FGCS Fifth Generation Computer Systems [project] (ICOT) @item FGPP Fine Grained Password Policy (AD) @item FGREP Fixed Global Regular Expression Print (Unix, GREP) @item FHE Fully Homomorphic Encryption (cryptography) @item FHGS FreeHand Graphics Studio (Macromedia, DTP) @item FHIR Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (USA) @item FHS File system Hierarchy Standard (Linux, LSB) @item FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (WLAN) @item FIA Fiberoptic Industry Association (org.) @item FIB Forwarding Information Base (router, LAN, Internet) @item FIBU FInanzBUchhaltung @item FIC First International Computer [inc.] (manufacturer) @item FICS Free Internet Chess Server @item FID File IDentifier (APDU) @item FID File Identifier Descriptor (UDF, CD-R) @item FIDO Fast IDentity Online (org.) @item FIDO FIlter Device Object, "FiDO" @item FIF Fractal Interchange Format @item FIFF Forum Informatikerinnen Fuer den Frieden (org.) @item FIFO First In First Out (CPU) @item FIG Forth Interest Group (org., Forth) @item FIGLET Frank, Ian and Glenn's LETters (ASCII, fonts) @item FILE Free Internet Lexicon and Encyclopedia (WWW, DICT) @item FILO First In Last Out @item FIMAS Financial Institution Message Authentication Standard (banking, ANSI) @item FINTS FINancial Transaction Services (banking, HBCI), "FinTS" @item FIOC Frame Input/Output Controller @item FIP Facility Interface Processor @item FIP Factory Instrumentation Protocol @item FIP Fluorescent Indicator Panel @item FIPA Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (org., Agents) @item FIPS Federal Information Processing Standard (NIST, USA) @item FIQ Fast Interrupt reQuest (ARM, RISC) @item FIR Fast IRDA (IRDA) @item FIR Finite Impulse Response (DSP) @item FIRE Flexible Intelligent Routing Engine (3Com) @item FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation (Europe, CORDIS) @item FIRMR Federal Information Resources Management Regulations (USA) @item FIRP Federal Internet Requirements Panel (Internet, USA) @item FIRS Federated Internet Registry Service (LDAP, Internet) @item FIRST ForschungsInstitut fuer Rechnerarchitektur und SoftwareTechnik (org., GMD, Berlin, Germany) @item FIRST Forum of Incident Response and SecuriTy (org., NIST) @item FIS FachInformationsSystem @item FIS FuehrungsInformationsSysteme @item FISH FIle transfer with a SHell, "FiSH" @item FISMA Federal Information Security Management Act (USA) @item FIT Failures In Time @item FIT Fraunhofer institut fuer angewandte InformationsTechnik (org.) @item FITS Functional Interpolating Transformation System @item FITUG Foerderverein Informationstechnik und Gesellschaft [e.V.] (org.) @item FIU Fingerprint Identification Unit (Sony) @item FIZ FachInformationsZentrum karlsruhe Org., Germany @item FK Foundation Kit (NextStep, OpenStep, Apple, Rhapsody) @item FKS Fernmelde-Klein-Steckverbindung (Westernstecker) @item FL Fiber optic Link @item FLAC Free Lossless Audio CODEC (CODEC, audio) @item FLACC Full Level Algol Checkout Compiler @item FLAME FLexible API for Module-based Environments (RL, API) @item FLASK FLux Advanced Security Kernel (DTOS) @item FLC Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal @item FLEA Four Letter Extended Acronym @item FLEXIP FLEXible Internet Protocol (Novell, Netware), "FLeX/IP" @item FLIM Faithful Library about Internet Message (EMACS, GNU) @item FLOPS FLoating-point Operations Per Second (CPU) @item FLOSS Free, Libre, and Open Source Software @item FLOWR For, Let, Order by, Where, Return [principle] (DB, XML) @item FLP Fast Link Pulse (ethernet, LAN, NLP) @item FLS ??? @item FM Frequenz-Modulation @item FMA Federated Management Architecture (Java) @item FMA Fused Multiply Add [operation] @item FMB Flexible MotherBoard [design] @item FMM Flash Memory Manager (Intel) @item FMO Flexible Macroblock Ordering (AVC, video) @item FMS FernMeldeSystem @item FMS FORTRAN Monitor System (OS, IBM 709) @item FMSB Flip Mount Super Back-plate (Scythe), F.M.S.B. @item FMTEYEWTK Far More Than Everything You Ever Wanted To Know (slang, PERL) @item FMV Full Motion Video [game] @item FNC Federal Networking Council (org., USA) @item FNI FachNormenausschuss Informationsverarbeitung [1962-1987] (DIN, NI, predecessor) @item FO Fiber Optic @item FOA Fiber Optic Association (org.) @item FOAF Friend Of A Friend [vocabulary] (RDF) @item FOC Fiber Optic Cable / Communications @item FOCAL FOrmula CALculator @item FOCS [symposium on] Foundations Of Computer Science (Konferenz) @item FOD Flexible Optical Disk (OD) @item FODA Formal specification of ODA document structures (ODA, ISO) @item FODO [international conference on] Foundations Of Data Organization and algorithms (conference, INRIA) @item FOEBUD [verein zur] Foerderung des OEffentlichen Bewegten und Unbewegten Datenverkehrs [e.v.] (org.), "FoeBuD" @item FOIP Face Over Internet Protocol (IP), "FoIP" @item FOIRL Fiber Optic InterRepeater Link (OWG) @item FOKUS Forschungszentrum fuer Offene KommUnikationsSysteme (org., GMD, Berlin, Germany) @item FOLDOC Free OnLine Dictionary Of Computing (WWW, UK) @item FOLED Flexible Organic Light Emitting Display (OLED) @item FOMA Freedom Of Multimedia Access (Japan, mobile-systems) @item FOMAU Fiber Optic MAU (ethernet, MAU) @item FON Fiber Optics Network @item FOO Friends Of O'reilly [meeting] @item FOOBAR FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (RFC 1639, FTP) @item FOOT Forum for Object Oriented Technology (CERN, OOP) @item FOP Feature Orientated Programming @item FOP Formatting Object Processor (Apache, XSL-FO) @item FORMEX FORMalised EXchange of electronic publications (SGML, Europe) @item FORML Formal Object Role Modelling Language @item FORTRAN FORmula TRANslation @item FORTWIHR FORschungsverbund fuer Technisch-WIssenschaftliches HochleistungsRechnen (org., Bavaria) @item FORWISS bayerisches FORschungszentrum fuer WISsensbasierte Systeme (org., KI) @item FOSI Format Output Specification Instance (SGML, CALS) @item FOSS Free and Open Source Software @item FOSSFA Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (org., Africa) @item FOSSIL Fido Opus Seadog Standard Interface Layer @item FOT Fiber Optic Transceiver @item FOTA Firmware Over The Air @item FOTE Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation, "FOT & E" @item FOUC Flash Of Unstyled Content (CSS) @item FOURCC FOUR Character Code (RIFF, TIFF, VFW, DivX) @item FOV Field Of View (VRML) @item FOX Field Operational X.500 @item FPA Fast Packet Adaption (FPS, FPR) @item FPA Floating Point Accelerator @item FPAA Field Programmable ALU Array (IC, ALU, RL) @item FPBGA Fine Pitch Ball Grid Array (IC, CPU) @item FPC Floating Point Coprocessor @item FPD Flat Panel Display @item FPDI Flat Panel Display Interface (VESA) @item FPDU FTAM Protocol Data Unit (PDU) @item FPE Floating Point Engine @item FPFA Field Programmable Function Array @item FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array (RL) @item FPI Flux changes Per Inch (HDD) @item FPI Formal Public Identifier (DTD, SGML, SI) @item FPI Functional Process Improvement @item FPK Fast Packet Keying (WLAN, WEP, RSA, cryptography) @item FPLA Field Programmable Logic Array @item FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications System (IN, mobile-systems) @item FPM Fast Page Mode [DRAM] (RAM, DRAM) @item FPM Fast Page Mode [ram] (RAM, DRAM, IC) @item FPMDRAM Fast Page Mode DRAM (RAM, DRAM, IC), "FPM-DRAM" @item FPMPMI Flat Panel Monitor Physical Mounting Interface [standard] [old term] (LCD, VESA, FDMI) @item FPNW File and Print service for NetWare (MS, Windows NT, DSMN) @item FPODA Fixed Priority Orientated Demand Assignment (MAC, PODA) @item FPP Fast-Parallel-Port @item FPP Floating Point Processor @item FPP FORTRAN Pre-Processor (FORTRAN) @item FPP Full Packaged Product (MS) @item FPR Fast Packet Relay (FPS, FPA) @item FPR Film Patterned Retarder (LCD) @item FPR Floating Point Register (FPU) @item FPS Fast Packet Switching (X.25, Datex-J) @item FPS First Person Shooter [game] @item FPS Frames Per Second @item FPSE Free PlayStation Emulator, "FPSe" @item FPSE FrontPage Server Extensions (Microsoft, IIS) @item FPU Floating Point Unit (CPU) @item FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name (Internet) @item FRAD Frame Relay Access Device @item FRAM Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (RAM, IC) @item FRC Frame Rate Control (PDP) @item FRD Functional Requirements Description @item FRF Floatingpoint Register File (DEC, Alpha, CPU) @item FRICC Federal Research Internet Coordinating Committee (org.) @item FRL Frame Representation Language (AI) @item FRMR FRaMe Reject (HDLC, LAPB, SDLC) @item FROM Factory Read Only Memory (ROM) @item FRR False Rejection Rate @item FRR Functional Recovery Routine @item FRS Flexible Route Selection @item FRS Frame Relay Service (ATM, UNI) @item FS File System (LVM) @item FS Forward Secrecy (cryptography, PFS) @item FS Frame Status (FDDI, Token Ring) @item FSAG Free Software Association of Germany (org.) @item FSB For Small Business (Novell) @item FSB Front Side Bus @item FSC Fujitsu Siemens Computer (manufacturer) @item FSCK File System Consistency checK (Unix) @item FSD File System Driver @item FSE Fabric Switch Engine (Dell, FEM) @item FSF Free Software Foundation (org., GNU) @item FSFE Free Software Foundation Europe (org., FSF) @item FSG Free Standards Group (org.) @item FSH File System Hierarchy (Linux, LSB) @item FSIP Full Scale InPut (FSOP) @item FSK Frequency Shift Keying (telecommunication) @item FSM Finite State Machine (TTCN, ...) @item FSM Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia Org., Germany @item FSMGDOS Font Scaling Manager - Graphics Device Operating System (OS, Atari), "FSM-GDOS" @item FSMO Flexible Single Master Operations (AD) @item FSO [scripting runtime library] File System Objects (MS, WSH) @item FSOP Full Scale OutPut (FSIP) @item FSOS Free Standing Operating System (OS) @item FSP File Slurping Protocol @item FSP Firmware Support Package (Intel) @item FSPF Fibre channel Shortest Path First @item FSRM File Server Resource Manager (AD) @item FSRTL File System RunTime Library @item FSS Fair Share Scheduler (Solaris, Sun) @item FSS Fast System Switch (Unix) @item FSSUTF FileSystem Safe UCS Transformation Format (UCS, Unicode), "FSS-UTF" @item FST Flat Square Technology (Hitachi) @item FSTN Film SuperTwisted Nematic (LCD) @item FSTP Foiled Shielded Twisted Pair [cable] (STP, TP), "F/STP" @item FSU Free Software Union (org.) @item FSV Flexible Sender Validation (SPAM) @item FSVO For Some Value Of (slang, Usenet, IRC) @item FT1 Fractional T1 (ISDN, T1, DS-0, DS-1) @item FTA Floptical Technology Association (3M u.a.) @item FTAM File Transfer, Access and Management (GOSIP, ISO 8571/8572) @item FTBFS Fails To Build From Source (Linux, Debian, slang) @item FTC Federal Trade Commission (org., USA) @item FTE [DCOM] For The Enterprise (DCOM, SAG) @item FTF Flash Tool Firmwares (Android) @item FTL Flash Translation Layer @item FTM File Transfer Manager (PDA, Casio) @item FTN Fido Technology Network (FidoNet) @item FTNA File Transfer Access and Management @item FTNEA File Transfer NEtwork Architecure (SNI) @item FTOS File Transfer Open Systems @item FTOS File Transfer OSI Support @item FTP File Transfer Protocol (Internet, RFC 959) @item FTP Foiled Twisted Pair [cable] (UTP, TP) @item FTPD File Transfer Protocol DAEMON (FTP) @item FTR Full Text Retrieval @item FTS Fidonet Technical Standard @item FTS2000 Federal Telecommunications Services - 2000 (USA), "FTS-2000" @item FTSC Federal Telecommunications Standards Committee (org., USA) @item FTSC Fidonet Technical Standard Conference (Konferenz) @item FTTC Fiber To The Curb @item FTTH Fibre To The Home (FTTN) @item FTTLA Fiber To The Last Amplifier @item FTTN Fibre To The Node (FTTH) @item FTZ FernmeldeTechnische Zentralamt / Zulassung (DTAG, ZZF, predecessor) @item FTZ Flush To Zero (DAZ) @item FUA Flow Update Acknowledge [message] (LFAP) @item FUB Freie Universitaet Berlin (org.) @item FUBAB Fouled / Fucked Up Beyond All Belief (slang, Usenet, IRC) @item FUBAR Failed UniBus Address Register (VAX) @item FUBAR Fouled / Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition / Repair (slang, Usenet, IRC) @item FUD Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt (slang, IBM) @item FUHD Full Ultra HD [7680x4320] (HD) @item FUN Flow Update Notification [message] (LFAP) @item FUNI Frame User Network Interface @item FUSE Filesystem in USErspace (Linux) @item FUSSP Final Ultimate Solution to the SPAM Problem (SPAM) @item FUEV Fernmeldeanlagen-UEberwachungsVerordnung @item FVD Forward Versatile Disc (China, WMV) @item FVWM F Virtual Window Manager @item FWA Fixed Wireless Access @item FWH FirmWare Hub (BIOS, Intel) @item FWIW For What It's Worth (slang, Usenet, IRC) @item FWS Folding White Space (RFC 1822) @item FWT Fast Wavelet Transformation @item FXO Foreign eXchange Office (FXS) @item FXS Foreign Exchange System / Subscriber (FXO) @item FXU FiXed point Unit (POWER, CPU) @item FYI For Your Information (slang, Usenet, IRC) @item FZA ??? [compression] @item FZI ForschungsZentrum Informatik (org., Uni Karlsruhe, Germany) @end table