FAST

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Fast may refer to:

• Fasting, abstaining from food
• Nacional Fast Clube, a Brazilian football club
• A speed racing for dirt horse racing tracks
• Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies
• Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
• "Fast", an album by the musician Custom
• Fast Product, a record label

FAST may stand for:

• Flexible Architecture for Simulation and Testing, a Stanford project for prototyping novel computer architecture ideas
• Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
• Firefighter Assist and Search Team, a team of firefighters dedicated the rescue of other firefighters
• Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology, Pakistan
• Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch of the United States Marine Corps
• Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
• Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
• The NASDAQ symbol for Fastenal Company
• Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope (China)
• Facial Affect Scoring Technique, a system devised to help researchers identify the facial expressions that typically accompany certain emotions
• Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade
• FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimised for streaming
• Functional Analysis System Technique, (FAST) a method used in Value Engineering to identify the important functions of an acquisition; usually prepared as a FAST diagram[1].
• Facilitated Action Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach to requirements gathering.
• "Face, Arm, Speech, Time", a mnemonic sequence designed to help people memorize the symptoms of a stroke

[edit] See also

• ATSF