Fas
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Fas can mean the following:
- FAS ligand, an important cell surface receptor protein known as a ligand
- Fes, Morocco, the third largest city in Morocco, as an alternate spelling
FAS can stand for:
- Femmes Africa Solidarité
- Federation of American Scientists, a non-profit organization formed in 1945 by scientists from the Manhattan Project
- Federation of Astronomical Societies, an international union of astronomical societies formed in 1974
- Ferrous Ammonium Sulfate (Mohr's Salt), a light green crystalline solid with the formula Fe(SO4)2(NH4)2.6H2O (CAS number: 10045-89-3)
- Free Alongside Ship, an Incoterm
- Foreign Agricultural Service, the part of the United States Department of Agriculture that has primary responsibility for overseas programs
- Foras Áiseanna Saothair, a state agency in the Republic of Ireland, with responsibility for assisting those seeking employment.
- Financial Accounting Standard, a standard determined by the Financial Accounting Standards Board
- Football Association of Singapore
- Firsts and Seconds, a grade of hardwood lumber defined by the National Hardwood Lumber Association in the United States.
- Free African Society, an 18th-century African-American community.
- Final Assembly (of manufactured products)
- Club Deportivo FAS, an Salvadoran football club
- Formability Analysis Software
[edit] Medicine
- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a spectrum of permanent and often devastating birth-defect syndromes caused by maternal consumption of alcohol during pregnancy within the FASD spectrum