FS

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On Wikipedia, FS may refer to Wikipedia:Featured sounds.

FS, fS, and fs are two-letter abbreviations and may refer to many things.

Contents 1 FS 1.1 Organizations and businesses 1.2 Entertainment 1.3 Computing, technology, and machinery 1.4 Transportation, geography, and places 1.5 Health and medicine 1.6 Military 1.7 Mathematics 1.8 Sports 1.9 Other 2 fs 3 fS

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[edit] Organizations and businesses

• Financial statements, the records of a business' financial activities
• Feasibility Study, a preliminary study undertaken to determine and document a project's viability
• Flagship Studios, a computer game company
• ForumStyles, a resource site for ZetaBoards
• Força Sindical, a Brazilian trade union
• United States Forest Service, part of the United States Department of Agriculture
• FS technology, a research project studied by IBM in the early 1970's aiming to develop a revolutionary line of computer products
• FS Studios, an art studios/production company
• Farm Sanctuary, an animal protection organization
• FamilySearch, a family history website for genealogy and family history research and networking
• FireStar, a Nintendo WiFi Connection gaming community and clan FireStar Gaming

[edit] Entertainment

• Descent: FreeSpace — The Great War, a space combat simulation computer game
• Full Surface Records, an American record label
• Future Sight, a set in the card game Magic: the Gathering
• FS (band), a band formed in Wilson, North Carolina
• Fallensword, a browser-based MMORPG

[edit] Computing, technology, and machinery

• File Separator, a character in the C0 control code set
• File server, a form of disk storage
• File system, in computer science and database theory
• Friendster, a social networking website
• Full scale or FS, the maximum measurable value
• Fullscreen, the picture format as opposed to widescreen
• FS, a Mazda piston engine

[edit] Transportation, geography, and places

• Ferrocarril de Sóller, a railway on Majorca
• Ferrovie dello Stato, the Italian railways
• French Southern Territories: FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code (excluding the Terre Adélie portion of Antarctica)
• Full Sail Real World Education, a university in Florida dedicated to real world education in the entertainment industry
• Servicios de Transportes Aéreos Fueguinos, IATA airline designator

[edit] Health and medicine

• Fibrin sealant, type of surgical tissue adhesive used during surgery to control bleeding
• Finger-sticks, in diabetes monitoring

[edit] Military

• Fin-stabilized projectiles, such as APFSDS or HEAT-FS (ammunition for tank guns)
• Fire Support, a military term
• Flight Sergeant, a non-commissioned officer in some air forces
• Flight Simulator, a simulator that tries to replicate the experience of flying for military personnel
• French Ship, a NATO prefix for ships of the French Navy
• Freiwillige Schutzstaffeln, combat groups of Sudetengermans that trained in the Third Reich in 1938-1939

[edit] Mathematics

• Fourier series, a mathematical tool used for analyzing periodic functions
• f_s, symbol for the Nyquist rate

[edit] Sports

• Free Safety, one variation of the defensive back position in American football
• Free skating, the second part of a figure skating competition
• Front Side, a direction while skateboarding

[edit] Other

• Franco's Spain, Francisco Franco's leadership of Spain
• FS numbers, symphonic musical compositions assigned by Dan Fog and Torben Schousboe to the works of the twentieth-century Danish composer Carl Nielsen
• Fall semester
• For Sale, sometimes used as internet slang or in auctions

[edit] fs

• femtosecond, an SI unit of time
• frameshift mutation, a genetic mutation

[edit] fS

• femtosiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance