Fos
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FOS can stand for:
- Faint Object Spectrograph as done by the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Feature-oriented scanning
- Factor of safety in mechanical and structural engineering.
- Fabric OS, Brocade Fibre Channel operating system (computing)
- FOS/NT - flight operations software from CTA
The name Fos has been associated with various communes in France:
- Fos (Haute-Garonne)
- Fos (Hérault),
- Fos-sur-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône
It is also a term used in biology:
- The product of the immediate early gene c-Fos which dimerises via a leucine zipper with jun to form the transcription factor activator protein-1
- as an initialism for Fructooligosaccharide, an oligosaccharide used as an artificial or alternative sweetener
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