FM

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FM or Fm may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film and television

• FM (TV channel), American TV network
• FM (1989 TV series), an American sitcom broadcast in 1989–1990
• FM (2009 TV series), British sitcom broadcast in 2009
• FM (film), 1978

Literature

• F.M. (novel), by Boris Akunin on Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
• Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine

Music

Musical artists

• FM (Canadian band), a Canadian progressive rock band
• FM (British band), a British AOR/hard rock band
• FM Static, a Canadian pop punk duo
• F.M. Einheit (born 1958), German musician and ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• Far East Movement, a hip hop/electropop quartet based in Los Angeles

Other uses in music

• FM (soundtrack), the original soundtrack to the film
• "FM (No Static at All)", a 1978 song by Steely Dan from the soundtrack
• FM Records, a record label
• "FM" (short for "frequent mutilation"), a song by The Slits
• FM (EP), a 2015 extended play by South Korean girl group Crayon Pop

Other media

• Football Manager, a popular management computer-game series published by SEGA which used to be known as Championship Manager

Businesses and organizations

• FM Global (Factory Mutual), a company that specializes in property protection by providing insurance and risk management services
• FM Records, a record label
• Fannie Mae, a colloquial name for the United States' Federal National Mortgage Association
• Fairbanks-Morse, an historic American and Canadian manufacturer of industrial weighing scales and engines
• Freddie Mac, a similar colloquialism for the United States' Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
• Future Movement, a Lebanese political party
• Shanghai Airlines (IATA airline designator), an airline headquartered in Shanghai

People

• F.M. Einheit (born 1958), German musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989), President of the Philippines
• FM-2030 (1930–2000), transhumanist philosopher

Places

• Federated States of Micronesia (ISO 3166-1 country code, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code, and postal code)
• Province of Fermo, a province of Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT code)
• Fargo–Moorhead, a metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
• Flower Mound, Texas, a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
• Frýdek-Místek, a city in the Czech republic

In science and technology

Biology and medicine

• FM (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen using Fludarabine and Mitoxantrone
• Family medicine, a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages
• Female, the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova (egg cells)
• Fibromyalgia, a chronic syndrome

Computing

• .fm, country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the Federated States of Micronesia
• FM Towns, one of a line of personal computers by Fujitsu
• File manager or file browser, a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems

Telecommunications

• Frequency modulation, the carrying of information over an electromagnetic wave by varying its frequency. Its most common applications are:
  • FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies
  • FM broadcast band, frequency band used for FM broadcasting

Units of measure

• Fathom, a marine unit of length
• fm, the symbol for femtometre, a unit of length also called a fermi
• fM, the symbol for femtomolar, a unit of molar concentration

Other uses in science and technology

• Fermium, a chemical element with symbol Fm
• Ferrous metal, any ferromagnetic metal (iron, nickel, cobalt, neodymium, or praseodymium)
• Formula Mazda, SCCA Class designation FM
• Fleet Management usually in GPS-based tracking
• Frequency modulation synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital music synthesizers

Schools

• Franklin & Marshall, also known as "F&M", a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Fayetteville-Manlius, a public K-12 school system in metropolitan Syracuse, New York

Titles

• Federal Magistrate, in the Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia
• FIDE Master, a title awarded by the world chess governing body
• Field marshal the highest rank in the British Army
• Finance minister, a executive or cabinet position in a government
• First Minister, the leader of a government cabinet
• Football manager, a type of Coach
• Foreign minister, a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state

Other uses

• Facilities management
• U.S. Army Field Manuals, in U.S. Army parlance
• Facility management, an interdisciplinary field devoted to the co-ordination of all business support services
• Farm-to-market road ("FM", sometimes "F-t-M"), a state or county road connecting rural and agricultural areas to market towns
• Farmers' market, consisting of individual vendors

See also

• F&M (disambiguation)