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Aviation and military

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First Flight Airport First Flight Airport is a public use airport located west of the central business district of Kill Devil Hills, a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. The airport is owned by the U.S. National Park Service. It is included in ...
, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, United States * Free-fire area in U.S. military parlance *
Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein Flug- und Fahrzeugwerke Altenrhein AG (FFA) () was a Swiss aircraft and railroad car manufacturing company based at Altenrhein (SG). It was originally part of Dornier Flugzeugwerke, but was split off in 1948. History In the years following World ...
, a Swiss aircraft and railway vehicle manufacturer *
Feldflieger Abteilung Feldflieger Abteilung (''FFA'', Field Flying Detachment) was the title of the pioneering field aviation units of (The Air Forces of the German Empire) formed in 1912, which became the ( German air service) on 8 October 1916, during the First World ...
, of the German army's air service in World War I


Business and commerce

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Ferrara Fire Apparatus Ferrara Fire Apparatus is an American manufacturer of heavy-duty emergency service equipment. The firm is based in Holden, Louisiana, and was founded by Chris Ferrara. Ferrara offers a custom-design process that allows customer to influence ...
, a builder of fire trucks and other emergency vehicles *
Forward freight agreement A forward freight agreement (FFA) is a financial forward contract that allows ship owners, charterers and speculators to hedge against the volatility of freight rates. It gives the contract owner the right to buy and sell the price of freight for ...
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Field force automation Field force automation (FFA) is the capture of field sales or service information in real time using communications technology, typically handheld PDAs, wireless devices, tablet PCs or mobile phones. The captured data is transferred immediately ...
* Furniture, fixtures and equipment (accounting), sometimes "furniture, fixtures and accessories" (FF&A)


Entertainment

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Final Fantasy Adventure ''Final Fantasy Adventure'', known in Japan as or simply and later released in Europe as ''Mystic Quest'', is a 1991 action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Game Boy. It is a spin-off of the ''Final Fantasy'' series ...
'', Game Boy game that is actually part of the ''Mana'' series * ''
Final Fantasy Anthology ''Final Fantasy'' is a video game series developed and published by Square Enix (formerly Square). The first installment in the series, the eponymous ''Final Fantasy'', premiered in Japan in 1987, and ''Final Fantasy'' games have been released al ...
'', a computer role-playing game compilation *
Far from Alaska Far from Alaska is a Brazilian rock band formed in 2012 in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, and based in São Paulo, São Paulo. History Formation and first performances (2012) All members lived in Natal by the time the band was formed, but only gu ...
, a Brazilian stoner rock group * Food for Animals, an American hip-hop group * Festival du film francophone d'Angoulême, an annual festival in France


Finance

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FFA Private Bank FFA Private Bank is a financial institution based in Dubai ( DIFC), United Arab Emirates specializing in the fields of capital markets, wealth management and advisory services. History and profile FFA Private Bank (Dubai) Ltd, founded in 2006, i ...
* Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries * Financial Fraud Action UK *
Forward-forward agreement In business and contract law, a forward-forward agreement (FFA) is a form of forward rate agreement in which party ''A'' agrees to lend party ''B'' the ''m1'' amount of money, at future time ''t1''. In return, ''B'' will pay to ''A'' a larger monet ...
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Free File Alliance The Free File Alliance is a group of tax preparation companies which operate a public-private partnership with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide free IRS e-file, electronic tax filing services under the IRS Free File, Free File program ...
in the United States *
Full fiscal autonomy for Scotland Full fiscal autonomy (FFA) – also known as devolution max,McLeish reiterat ...
* Fellow member of the
Institute of Financial Accountants The Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) is a professional accountancy body representing and providing certification for financial accountants in the United Kingdom. The IFA is a full member of the International Federation of Accountants. ...


Sport

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Fédération française d'athlétisme The French Athletics Federation (, FFA) is the governing body for the sport of athletics in France. History FFA is the heir to the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), founded November 20, 1887. In 1912, a French del ...
, the governing body for the sport of athletics in France *
FFA Centre of Excellence The FFA Centre of Excellence (formerly the Australian Institute of Sport Football Program) was a soccer talent identification and player development program run by Football Federation Australia (FFA) and was based at the Australian Institute of ...
, a defunct Australian football club *
Florida Football Alliance The Florida Football Alliance (FFA) was an American football semi-professional league based out of Boynton Beach, Florida. Founded in May 2007, the league opened its first season of operation on January 19, 2008, and remains the oldest continuous ...
, an amateur American football league *
Football Federation Australia Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only establ ...
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Football Federation of Armenia The Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) (, ''Hayastani Futboli Federats’ia'') is the governing body of association football in Armenia. Its headquarters are located in Yerevan. The Federation organizes the Armenian Premier League, the Armeni ...
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First free ascent In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books), is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain or the top of a particular climbing route. Early 20th-century mountaineers and climbers focused ...
, in climbing and mountaineering


Science and computing

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Fast folding algorithm The Fast-Folding Algorithm (FFA) is a computational method primarily utilized in the domain of astronomy for detecting periodic signals. FFA is designed to reveal repeating or cyclical patterns by "folding" data, which involves dividing the data se ...
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Finite field arithmetic In mathematics, finite field arithmetic is arithmetic in a finite field (a field containing a finite number of elements) contrary to arithmetic in a field with an infinite number of elements, like the field of rational numbers. There are infinit ...
* Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accelerator *
Flash flood watch A flash flood watch ( SAME code: FFA; also referred as a "green box" by meteorologists) is severe weather watch product of the National Weather Service that is issued when conditions are favorable for flash flooding in flood-prone areas, usually ...
, issued by the United States National Weather Service *
Ford–Fulkerson algorithm The Ford–Fulkerson method or Ford–Fulkerson algorithm (FFA) is a greedy algorithm that computes the maximum flow in a flow network. It is sometimes called a "method" instead of an "algorithm" as the approach to finding augmenting paths in a r ...
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Free fatty acid In chemistry, in particular in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated. Most naturally occurring fatty acids have an unbranched chain of an even number of carbon atoms, f ...
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Fusiform face area The fusiform face area (FFA, meaning spindle-shaped face area) is a part of the human visual system (while also activated in people blind from birth) that is specialized for facial recognition. It is located in the inferior temporal cortex (I ...
* Fundus fluorescein angiography; see
fluorescein angiography Fluorescein angiography (FA), fluorescent angiography (FAG), or fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) is a technique for examining the circulation of the retina and choroid (parts of the fundus) using a fluorescent dye and a specialized camera. ...


Other uses

* Federal Firearms Act *
Ffairfach railway station Ffairfach railway station serves the village of Ffairfach, near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The station is on the Heart of Wales Line north east of Swansea. The railway station is located next to the main road Heol Cennen, which crosse ...
, in Wales * Free for All (disambiguation) *
Fugitive Felon Act The Fugitive Felon Act, abbreviated FFA, is a United States federal law that criminalizes interstate flight in order to avoid prosecution or giving testimony in state felony proceedings, a crime termed unlawful flight. The FFA was introduced to ...
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National FFA Organization The National FFA Organization or FFA is an American nonprofit career and technical student organization, which offers middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education. Future Farmers of Virginia (FFV) was founded in ...
(Future Farmers of America), an American student organization *
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is an intergovernmental agency established in 1979 to facilitate regional co-operation and co-ordination on fisheries policies between its member states in order to achieve conservation and optimum u ...
* Fatima Family Apostolate, a U.S.-based Roman Catholic organization {{disambiguation