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
• Fructooligosaccharide
• Future Office System as used by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and developed by Anite
• Female Oral Stimulation 'pleasuring the vagina or clitoris with the mouth or tongue'
• Financial Ombudsman Service - Financial Ombudsman Service
• Full of shit 'Someone having an excessive amount of waste in their bodies or describing someone who lies as in; "You said the tree was blue, you are full of shit." '

[edit] French Communes

• Fos, Haute-Garonne
• Fos, Hérault
• Fos-sur-Mer, Bouches-du-Rhône
• Fos, sea port of Marseille

[edit] Music

• Fos, a single released by Elena Paparizou

[edit] Science

• 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