FPS
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FPS has several meanings:
In units of measurement:
- Foot-pound-second, the imperial units system of measurement
- Feet per second, an Imperial unit for speed
- Frames per second, used for measuring the frame speed in a moving image
In media:
- fps magazine, a magazine about animation
- First-person shooter, a video game centered on shooting where the player's on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character
- Fictional Person Slash, in slash fiction
Organizations:
- FPS (ice hockey), ice hockey team of the club Forssan Palloseura.
- United States Federal Protective Service, agency responsible for the protection of United States federal buildings.
- Federal Protective Service (Russia), independent organization formerly part of the KGB.
- Facilities Protection Service An Iraqi paramilitary organization.
- Famous Pacific Shipping, a logistics company.
- Floating Point Systems, a computer company founded in 1970 and later purchased by Cray Research.
- Future Problem Solving Program International, an academic competition for K-12 students.
- Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
- Famous Pacific Shipping, a freight company.
Services:
- Faster Payments Service, a banking initiative in the United Kingdom run by APACS
- Amazon Flexible Payments Service, a payments web service allowing micropayments
FPS may also refer to:
- Frames Per Stop, a bowling technician industry term
- Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT, a novel about IITians
- Forties pipeline system in the North Sea
- Fast packet switching, a telecommunications protocol used in networking.