FM (disambiguation)

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[edit] Electrical engineering

• In the field of electrical engineering, FM usually stands for frequency modulation. Its most common applications are:
  • FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies
  • FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers

[edit] Publications

• Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
• F.M. (book), a book by Boris Akunin related to F.M. Dostoevsky
• In the U.S. Army the acronym FM stands for Field Manuals

[edit] Science

• Fm, the chemical symbol for Fermium
• Ferrous metal, any ferromagnetic metal (iron, nickel, cobalt, neodymium, or praseodymium)
• fathom, a marine unit of length
• fm, the symbol for femtometre, an SI unit of length (also known as the fermi)

[edit] People

• Federal Magistrate
• Female
• First Minister
• Flight Manager
• Football manager
• Foreign Minister
• FM Einheit alias FM, German musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• F.M. Dostoevsky, prominent Russian writer of the 19th century. In May 2006 a book titled F.M. about Dostoevsky by Boris Akunin was released.
• FIDE Master is a title awarded by the world chess governing body.
• FM-2030 a transhumanist philosopher.

[edit] Places

• Fargo-Moorhead, a metropolitan area of the United States (more commonly abbreviated F-M)
• Federated States of Micronesia: ISO 3166-1 country code, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code, and postal code

[edit] Organizations

• Fannie Mae, a colloquial name for the United States' Federal National Mortgage Association
• Freddie Mac, a similar colloquialism for the United States' Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation

[edit] Computing

• Federated States of Micronesia: .fm is its country-code top-level domain (ccTLD)
• File Manager
• a line of personal computers by Fujitsu (e.g. the FM Towns)
• Football Manager - a football management computer games series
• Forza Motorsport - a Automobile Racing game, similar to Gran Turismo.

[edit] Military

• Field Manual, in U.S. Army parlance

[edit] Music

• "FM (No Static At All)", a song by Steely Dan
• "FM" (standing for "frequent mutilation"), a song by The Slits
• Flogging Molly, a band
• Fort Minor, a side project by Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda
• FM (Canadian band), a Canadian progressive rock band
• FM (British band), a British AOR/hard rock band
• Fm, the musical chord of F minor
• FM Einheit alias FM, a German musician and ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• Five Musicians, also known as FM
• FM Records, a record label

[edit] Other

• Facility Management
• Fairbanks-Morse
• Farm to Market Road (sometimes written F-t-M), a state or county road which connects rural and agricultural areas to market towns. In Texas, Farm to Market Roads are often abbreviated as FM
• Fibromyalgia - "FM" is also sometimes used to indicate "Fibromyalgia" or "Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS)." Fibromyalgia is sometimes also considered or confused with CFS/CFIDS/ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, &/or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis [a.k.a. - Myalgic Encephalopathy])
• Fictionmania
• FM (movie), a 1978 film
• Shanghai Airlines: IATA airline designator