Fast or FAST may refer to: * Fast (noun), high speed or velocity * Fast (noun, verb), to practice fasting, abstaining from food and/or water for a certain period of time

Acronyms and coded

Computing and software

* ''Faceted Application of Subject Terminology'', a thesaurus of subject headings * Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering * FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming * FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm * FAST and later as Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies * Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool, software to develop work schedules * Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection * Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software * Feedback arc set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory * USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Government

* Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi, a political party in Samoa * Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, 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, a Canada-United States and Mexico-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

Military

* Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch 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, a combat helmet of United States of America.

Organizations

* Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, an aviation museum * Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade * Firefighter assist and search team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters * Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology

Science and medicine

* FAST (stroke) (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time), a mnemonic for the symptoms of a stroke * Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory * Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, 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 acronyms

* Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition * Fairfield and Suisun Transit * Free ad-supported streaming television

Arts and entertainment

* Fast (Luke Bryan song), "Fast" (Luke Bryan song), 2016 * Fast (Juice Wrld song), 2019 * "Fast", a song by Chief Keef and Zaytoven from ''GloToven'', 2019 * ''Fast'', an album by Custom (musician), Custom, 2002 * ''Fast'', a 2010 short film starring Charlyne Yi * "Fast (Motion)", 2021 song by Saweetie * ''The Fast Saga'', a film series in the F&F franchise

People

People with the surname

* Alexia Fast (born 1992), Canadian actress * Christian Fast (1762–1841), American soldier and pioneer * Herman Becker Fast (1887-1945), American businessman, farmer, and politician * Howard Fast (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 * Fast Eddie (disambiguation)

Other uses

* Fast Product, a record label