FAP may refer to:

Technology and industry

FORTRAN Assembly Program The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale (Mainframe computer, mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes several different, incompatible processor architectures. The 700s ...

, the macro assembler for some IBM mainframe computers * Fair Access Policy, a term for a bandwidth cap, limiting Internet usage *

Femtocell In telecommunications, a femtocell is a small, low-power cellular base station, typically designed for use in a home or small business. A broader term which is more widespread in the industry is ''small cell'', with ''femtocell'' as a subset. It t ...

(Femto Access Point), a small cellular telephone base station *

Fabrika automobila Priboj Korporacija Fabrika automobila Priboj (; abbr. FAP) is a Serbian automotive manufacturer of military vehicles and with the headquarters in Priboj. Initially producing licensed copies of Saurer trucks, it produced Mercedes-Benz NG trucks under l ...

, a motor vehicle manufacturer based in Priboj, Serbia *

Film Academy of the Philippines Established in 1981, the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) is the Philippines' official counterpart of the United States' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The FAP was founded through Executive Order 640-A issued by the Presiden ...

, the Philippines' official counterpart of the United States' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences *

Face Animation Parameter A Face Animation Parameter (FAP) is a component of the MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation (FBA) International Standard (ISO/IE14496-1 developed by the Moving Pictures Experts Group. It describes a standard for virtually representing humans and humano ...

, part of the MPEG-4 face animation standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group

Science and medicine

Functional analytic psychotherapy Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) is a psychotherapeutic approach based on clinical behavior analysis (CBA) that focuses on the therapeutic relationship as a means to maximize client change. Specifically, FAP suggests that in-session conti ...

, clinical psychotherapy that uses a "radical behaviorist" position *

Familial adenomatous polyposis Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal dominant inherited condition in which numerous adenomatous polyps form mainly in the epithelium of the large intestine. While these polyps start out benign, malignant transformation into colon ...

, a condition where polyps form in the large intestine *

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, also called hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis (hATTR), or Corino de Andrade's disease, is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease. It is a form of amyloidosis, and was first identified and described by P ...

, a neurodegenerative, genetically transmitted disease *

Fixed action pattern "Fixed action pattern" is an Ethology, ethological term describing an instinctive behavioral sequence that is highly stereotyped and species-characteristic. Fixed action patterns are said to be produced by the innate releasing mechanism, a "hard-wi ...

, an instinctive animal behavioral sequence * Filamentous anoxygenic phototroph, a descriptive term for the Chloroflexia class of photosynthetic bacteria *

FAP (gene) Fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP-alpha) also known as prolyl endopeptidase FAP is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FAP gene. Prolyl endopeptidase FAP is a 170 kDa membrane-bound gelatinase. It was independently identified as a ...

, a human gene, encoding for the fibroblast activation protein * Fas-associated phosphatase, a molecule that inhibits the effect of Fas ligand to make cells initiate apoptosis *

Final Anthropic Principle Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. Tipler has written books and papers on the Omega ...

, a generalization of the Anthropic Principle, proposed by physicists Frank J. Tipler and John D. Barrow

Politics, government, and armed forces

* Broad Progressive Front (Argentina) (Spanish: ''Frente Amplio Progresista''), an Argentine political party * Federal-aid primary highway system, part of the United States

federal-aid highway program The U.S. federal-aid highway program was commenced in 1916, with milestones of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. Before the Interstate Highway System was established in 1956, the federal-aid highway system c ...

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administratio ...

, the visual arts arm of the US Great Depression-era Federal One program *

Francis Allen-Palenske Francis Allen-Palenske (born 1976/1977) is an American elected official in Las Vegas, Nevada. Early life and education Allen-Palenske was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; , ) is the List of capitals in the United States, ca ...

(born 1976/1977), American politician from Las Vegas, Nevada *

Family Assistance Plan The Family Assistance Plan (FAP) was a welfare program introduced by President of the United States, President Richard Nixon in August 1969, which aimed to implement a negative income tax for households with working parents. The FAP was influence ...

, a failed US welfare program * FREE Australia Party, an Australian political party *

Free German Workers' Party The Free German Workers' Party (, FAP) was a neo-Nazi political party in Germany. It was outlawed by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 1995. History The FAP was founded in 1979. However, it was largely insignificant until the banning of ...

(German: ''Freiheitliche Arbeiter Partei''), a defunct German political party *

Paraguayan Air Force The Paraguayan Air Force () is a branch of the Armed Forces of Paraguay, in charge of the defense of Paraguay's skies. Its interim commander is Air Division General Julio Rubén Fullaondo Céspedes. Its headquarters are located in Ñu Guazu, Lu ...

(Spanish: ''Fuerza Aérea Paraguaya'') *

People's Armed Forces The People's Armed Forces (''Forces Armées Populaires'' or FAP) was a Chadian insurgent group composed of followers of Goukouni Oueddei after the schism with Hissène Habré in 1976. With an ethnic base in the Teda clan of the Toubou from the ...

(French: ''Forces Armées Populaires''), a Chadian insurgent group *

Peronist Armed Forces The Peronist Armed Forces (, FAP) was an Argentine left-wing Peronist urban guerrilla Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, Partisan (military), partisans, parami ...

, (Spanish: ''Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas''), an Argentine guerrilla group operating in the 1960s and 1970s *

Peruvian Air Force The Peruvian Air Force (, FAP) is the branch of the Peruvian Military of Peru, Armed Forces tasked with defending the nation and its interests through the use of aerial warfare, air power. Additional missions include assistance in safeguarding i ...

(Spanish: ''Fuerza Aérea del Peru'') *

Portuguese Air Force The Portuguese Air Force () is the air force, aerial warfare force of Portugal. Locally it is referred to by the acronym FAP but internationally is often referred to by the acronym PRTAF. It is the youngest of the three branches of the Portuguese ...

(Portuguese: ''Força Aérea Portuguesa'')

Other

* Fap, a slang term for

masturbation Masturbation is a form of autoeroticism in which a person Sexual stimulation, sexually stimulates their own Sex organ, genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm. Stimulation may involve the use of han ...

Feminist Art Program The Feminist Art Program (FAP) was a college-level art program for women developed in 1970 by artist Judy Chicago and continued by artists Rita Yokoi, Miriam Schapiro, and others. The FAP began at Fresno State College, as a way to address gender in ...

, an art program for women only * FAP Basketball, a Cameroonian basketball team {{disambig