Fast or FAST may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* "Fast" (Juice Wrld song), 2019 * "Fast" (Luke Bryan song), 2016 * "Fast" (Sueco song), 2019 * "Fast" (GloToven song), 2019 * ''Fast'', an album by Custom, 2002 * ''Fast'', a 2010 short film starring Charlyne Yi * " Fast (Motion)", 2021 song by Saweetie * ''

Fast & Furious ''Fast & Furious'', also known as ''The Fast and the Furious'', is an American Action film, action media franchise centered on a series of films revolving around street racing, heist film, heists, and spy film, spies. The franchise also inclu ...

'', an action franchise

Computing and software

FAST protocol The FAST protocol ( FIX Adapted for STreaming) is a technology standard developed by FIX Protocol Ltd., specifically aimed at optimizing data representation on the network. It is used to support high-throughput, low latency data communications bet ...

, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming * FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm * Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering *

Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool Fatigue (medical), Fatigue is a major human factors issue in aviation safety.Caldwell JA, Caldwell JL. Fatigue in military aviation: an overview of US military-approved pharmacological countermeasures. ''Aviat Space Environ Med'' 76(7, Suppl):C39-5 ...

, software to develop work schedules * Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection * Feedback arc set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory

Government

* Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi, a political party in Samoa *

Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act or the FAST Act is a funding and authorization bill to govern United States federal surface transportation spending. It was passed by Congress on December 3, 2015, and President Barack Obama sig ...

, passed by the United States Congress * Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams, a former program of the US Drug Enforcement Administration; see *

Free and Secure Trade The Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program is a joint United States-Canadian program between the Canada Border Services Agency and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The FAST initiative offers pre-authorized importers, carriers and drivers expe ...

, a Canada-United States and Mexico-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

Military

Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team The Marine Corps Security Force Regiment is a dedicated expeditionary security and anti-terrorism regiment of the United States Marine Corps. Its mission is to provide security forces to guard high-value naval installations, most notably t ...

, a unit of the United States Marine Corps * Fuel And Sensor Tactical packs, a type of conformal fuel tank developed for the F-15 * Future Assault Shell Technology helmet, an American combat helmet

Organizations

* FAST Multimedia AG, former company located in Munich; vendor of graphics boards, video frame grabbers and video processing software; later consumed by

Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems, Inc., was an American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the mainstream and broadcast markets. Pinnacle was a pioneer of using Workstation, computer workstations for video production and was the top player in ...

* FAST and later as

Fast Search & Transfer Microsoft Development Center Norway (known as FAST (Fast Search & Transfer ASA) before 2010) is a Norway, Norwegian company, founded in 1997 and based in Oslo, with offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, ...

, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies *

Farnborough Air Sciences Trust The Farnborough Air Sciences Trust (FAST) museum holds a collection of aircraft (actual and model), satellites, simulators, wind tunnel and Royal Aircraft Establishment-related material. It is based in Farnborough, Hampshire immediately adjacent ...

, an aviation museum *

Federation Against Software Theft The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) is a not-for-profit organisation, formed in 1984 with the aim of eliminating copyright infringement of software in the UK. FAST was the world's first Anti-piracy organisation to work on protecting th ...

, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software *

Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an independent think tank founded in 1990 working to shape and inform international policy on sustainable development governance. The institute has three offices in Canada - Winni ...

Firefighter assist and search team A firefighter assist and search team (FAST), also known as a rapid intervention team/rapid intervention crew/rapid intervention group/rapid intervention dispatch (RIT/RIC/RIG/RID) or breathing apparatus safety teams (BAST), is a team of two or more ...

, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters *

Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology The Fulbright Academy, also known as the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology, was an international non-profit organization established by alumni of the Fulbright Exchange Program and others interested in science and technology innovation. It ...

People

People with the given name

Fast Robinson Fast Eddie Joe Robinson (born 19 September 1994), known professionally as Eddie-Joe Robinson, is an English actor. He began his career appearing in various stage productions after training at the National Youth Theatre, with starring roles in ' ...

(born 1994), English actor known professionally as Eddie-Joe Robinson

People with the surname

Alexia Fast Alexia Fast (born 12 September 1992) is a Canadian actress who began her career at the age of seven when she wrote, directed and starred in the short film ''The Red Bridge,'' which premiered at the 2002 Atlantic and Reel to Reel Film Festivals ...

(born 1992), Canadian actress *

Christian Fast Christian Fast (1762–1841) was born in Maryland, the youngest son of German immigrants, Johann Nicklaus Fast and Cadarina Dörner, who were from Göcklingen, Germany (Nicklaus) and Ilbesheim, Germany (Cadarina), although he spent much of his you ...

(1762–1841), American soldier and pioneer *

Herman Becker Fast Herman Becker Fast (May 19, 1887 – December 20, 1938) was an American farmer, businessman, and politician. Fast was born in a Mennonite farming family in Mountain Lake, Minnesota, Mountain Lake, Cottonwood County, Minnesota. He lived with hi ...

(1887–1945), American businessman, farmer, and politician *

Howard Fast Howard Melvin Fast (November 11, 1914 – March 12, 2003) was an American novelist and television writer. Fast also wrote under the pen names E.V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Biography Early life Fast was born in New York City. His mother, ...

(1914–2003), American novelist and television writer * Jesper Fast (born 1991), Swedish ice hockey player * Jonathan Fast (born 1948), American author, son of Howard Fast * Julius Fast (1919–2008), American author, brother of Howard Fast * Matt Fast, lead singer of the Canadian punk band The Undecided * Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), American author, daughter of Jonathan Fast * Piotr Fast (born 1951), Polish professor and translator

People with the nickname

* Brian Leiser (born 1972), nicknamed "Fast", musician, member of the band Fun Lovin' Criminals * Fast Eddie (disambiguation)

Science and medicine

FAST (stroke) FAST is an acronym used as a Mnemonic, mnemonic device to help early recognition and detection of the signs and symptoms of a stroke. The acronym stands for Facial drooping, Arm (or leg) weakness, Speech difficulties and Time to call emergency ser ...

(Face, Arm, Speech, and Time), a mnemonic for the symptoms of a stroke * Family System Test, a visualization method for representing cohesion and hierarchy constellations in families and similar social systems * Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory *

Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer The Fast Auroral SnapshoT Explorer (FAST or Explorer 70) was a NASA plasma physics satellite, and was the second spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX). It was launched on 21 August 1996, from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Vandenberg Ai ...

, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft * Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (), a large single-dish radio telescope in Guizhou province, China * Fluorescence-activating and absorption-shifting tag, genetically encoded protein tag used in molecular biology * Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient * Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method * Future Attribute Screening Technology

Other uses

* Fast Product, a record label * '' Faceted Application of Subject Terminology'', a thesaurus of subject headings *

Fifteen and Send Time Dog agility is a dog sport in which a Professional handler, handler directs a dog through an obstacle course in a race for both time and accuracy. Dogs run off leash with no food or toys as incentives, and the handler can touch neither dog nor o ...

, a type of dog agility competition * Fairfield and Suisun Transit *

Free ad-supported streaming television Free advertising-supported streaming television (FAST) is a category of streaming television services which offer traditional linear television programming ("live TV") and studio-produced movies without a paid subscription, funded exclusively by a ...

* USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies