FF, Ff, fF or ff may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, media
Film
* Logo of
Finos Film
Finos Film (Greek: Φίνος Φιλμ) is a Greek film production and distribution company that dominated the Greek film industry from 1943 to 1977. It was founded by Filopimin Finos in 1942 during World War II
World War II or the ...
, a former Greek film production company
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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 ...
'', a media franchise centered on a series of action films that are largely concerned with illegal street racing
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Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four, often abbreviated as FF, is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team debuted in '' The Fantastic Four'' #1 ( cover-dated November 1961), helping usher in a new level of realism i ...
Games
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Fatal Frame
''Fatal Frame'', titled in Japan and ''Project Zero'' in Europe and Australia, is a Japanese survival horror video game series that was created, published and developed by Koei Tecmo (originally Tecmo). Debuting in 2001 with the Fatal Frame (vi ...
'', a survival horror video game series
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Fatal Fury
''Fatal Fury'', known as in Japan, is a fighting game series developed by SNK, first released on the Neo Geo system.
Gameplay
The original ''Fatal Fury'' is known for the two-plane system. Characters fight from two different planes. By step ...
'', a fighting video game series
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Final Fantasy
is a Japanese fantasy Anthology series, anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square (video game company), Square). The franchise centers on a series of fanta ...
'', a role-playing video game series
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Final Fight
''Final Fight'' is a series of beat 'em up video games by Japanese publisher Capcom, which began with the arcade release of '' Final Fight'' in 1989. Set in the fictional Metro City, within the '' Street Fighter'' universe, the games focus on ...
'', a beat 'em up video game series
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Fortress Forever'', a mod for the first-person shooter video game Half-Life 2
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Fossil Fighters
''Fossil Fighters'' is a role-playing video game series published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS consoles. Its gameplay revolves around digging up and extracting dinosaur fossils, reviving them into supernatural "vivosaurs" and e ...
'', a role-playing video game series
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Free Fire'', a battle royale video game by Garena
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FusionFall
''Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall'' was a massively multiplayer online game developed by Cartoon Network and South Korean studio Grigon Entertainment, released on January 13, 2009. The game took place within an amalgamation of Cartoon Netw ...
'', a defunct Cartoon Network-themed MMORPG
Literature
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ff – Südtiroler Wochenmagazin'', an Italian weekly journal published in German language
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Fire Force'', a manga series about superhero firefighters with a serialized anime adaptation
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Fantastic Four
The Fantastic Four, often abbreviated as FF, is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The team debuted in '' The Fantastic Four'' #1 ( cover-dated November 1961), helping usher in a new level of realism i ...
, a superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics
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Future Foundation
The Future Foundation is a fictional organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Jonathan Hickman, the team first appeared in ''Fantastic Four'' #579 (July 2010) and stars in the series ''FF,'' wri ...
, a fictional superhero team that replaced the Fantastic Four after the death of Johnny Storm, also published by Marvel Comics
Music
* Fortissimo (''ff''), a
dynamic indicator in music for "very loud"
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Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial met ...
, an American metal band
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Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes are an American indie folk band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 2006. The band currently consists of Robin Pecknold (vocals, guitar), Skyler Skjelset (guitar, mandolin, backing vocals), Casey Wescott (keyboards, mandolin, backin ...
, an American indie folk band
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Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Seattle in 1994. Initially founded as a one-man project by former Nirvana (band), Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, the band comprises vocalist/guitarist Grohl, bassist Nate Mendel, gu ...
, an American rock band
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Franz Ferdinand (band)
Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish Rock music, rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002. Their original line-up was composed of Alex Kapranos (lead vocals, guitar, keyboards), Nick McCarthy (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Bob Hardy (bassist), Bob Hardy ( ...
, a Scottish rock band
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Freestyle Fellowship
Freestyle Fellowship is an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. It consists of Aceyalone, Myka 9, P.E.A.C.E., and Self Jupiter. The group was a prominent part of the Good Life Cafe collective, and are part of the Project Blo ...
, an American hip hop group
Television
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Family Feud
''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. Two families compete on each episode to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.
The show has had three separate runs, the ...
'', an American syndicated game show
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Family Fortunes
''Family Fortunes'' is a British television game show based on the American game show ''Family Feud''. The programme ran on ITV from 6 January 1980 to 6 December 2002. A celebrity version, '' All Star Family Fortunes'', followed from 2006 to ...
'', a British game show based on the American version
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Freeform (TV channel)
Freeform is an American basic cable channel owned and operated by ABC Family Worldwide, a subsidiary of the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of the Walt Disney Company. Freeform primarily broadcasts programming geared towar ...
, a US cable and satellite TV channel that is targeted to teens and young adults
* FF, the production code for the 1966–67 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''
The Highlanders''
Other media
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Found footage (pseudo-documentary)
Found footage is a cinematic technique and film genre in which all or a substantial part of the work is presented as if it were film or Videocassette recorder, video recordings recorded by characters in the story, and later "found" and presented ...
, a film genre in which created footage is presented as if it were discovered
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Fanfiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction typically written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized by, but based on, an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted ...
, unofficial writing about a work based on the work's characters and setting.
Businesses and organizations
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Faraday Future
Faraday Future Inc. is an American startup technology company founded in 2014 focused on the development of electric vehicles. Based in Los Angeles, California, it began producing vehicles in 2023 and markets them in the United States and Chi ...
, a car company
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Fianna Fáil
Fianna Fáil ( ; ; meaning "Soldiers of Destiny" or "Warriors of Fál"), officially Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party (), is a centre to centre-right political party in Ireland.
Founded as a republican party in 1926 by Éamon de ...
, political party in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Mukti Bahini
The Mukti Bahini, initially called the Mukti Fauj, also known as the Bangladesh Forces, was a big tent armed guerrilla resistance movement consisting of the Bangladeshi military personnel, paramilitary personnel and civilians during the Ba ...
(Freedom Fighters), armed organizations who fought against the Pakistan Army during the Bangladesh Liberation War
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Tower Air
Tower Air was a certificated FAR 121 U.S. charter airline that also operated scheduled passenger service from 1983 until 2000 when the company declared bankruptcy and was liquidated. Scheduled flights were initially offered over a New York – Bru ...
(IATA code: FF), a certificated FAR 121 schedule and charter U.S. airline that operated from 1983 until 2000
Language
* , a Latin alphabet digraph, see
List of digraphs in Latin alphabets#F
* , a
typographic ligature
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph. Examples are the characters and used in English and French, in which the letters and are joined for the first ligature ...
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Word-initial ff, digraph used initially
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Fula language
Fula ( ),Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student's Handbook'', Edinburgh also known as Fulani ( ) or Fulah (, , ; Adlam script, Adlam: , , ; Ajami script, Ajami: , , ), is a Senegambian languages, Senegambian language spoken by arou ...
(ISO 639-1 code ff), a language of West Africa
Science and technology
Computing
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File format
A file format is a Computer standard, standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary format, pr ...
, any of numerous ways to encode information on digital media
**.ff file format, used by game developer
Infinity Ward
Infinity Ward, Inc. is an American video game developer. They developed the video game '' Call of Duty'', along with seven other installments in the ''Call of Duty'' series. Vince Zampella, Grant Collier, and Jason West established Infinity W ...
to store data securely
**.ff file format, used by imaging technologies corporation
Agfa-Gevaert
Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Agfa) is a Belgian-German multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, and distributes analogue and digital imaging products, software, and systems.
The company began as a dye manufacturer in 1867. In 1925, the comp ...
to store font outline data
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Firefox
Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements curr ...
, a web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation
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Flip-flop (electronics)
In electronics, flip-flops and latches are electronic circuit, circuits that have two stable states that can store state information – a bistable multivibrator. The circuit can be made to change state by signals applied to one or more control ...
, a digital electronic circuit memory element
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Form Feed
A page break is a marker in an electronic document that tells the document interpreter the content which follows is part of a new page. A page break causes a form feed to be sent to the printer during spooling of the document to the printer. It i ...
, a control character in the C0 control code set used in ASCII
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Full-frame digital SLR
A full-frame DSLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) with a 35 mm image sensor format (). Historically, 35 mm was one of the standard film formats, alongside larger ones, such as medium format and large format. Many digit ...
, a camera fitted with an image sensor equivalent in size to traditional 35 mm film
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Adobe Font Folio
Adobe Font Folio was a collection of more than 2,400 OpenType fonts, designed by several renowned type foundries. , there were around 10,000 fonts available in OpenType format. Adobe's font library makes up under a third of the total, all of wh ...
, an Adobe software
Transportation
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Ferrari FF, a sports car
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Jensen FF
The Jensen FF is a four-wheel drive grand tourer produced by British car manufacturer Jensen Motors between 1966 and 1971. It was the first non all-terrain production car equipped with four-wheel drive and an anti-lock braking system. The power ...
, the first non all-terrain production car equipped with 4WD and an anti-lock braking system
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Feet forwards motorcycle
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Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout
In automotive design, a front-engine, front-wheel-drive (FWD) layout, or FF layout, places both the internal combustion engine and driven roadwheels at the front of the vehicle.
Usage implications
Historically, this designation was used rega ...
, a car designed with a front engine and front-wheel drive, colloquially known as "FF" for short
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Front freewheel
A front freewheel or freewheel crank is a freewheel mechanism used on some bicycles which enables the drivetrain of the bicycle to continue spinning while the rider rolls, but stops pedaling, or ''coasts''. Unlike regular bicycles, a front freewh ...
, a crankset for bicycles
Other uses in science and technology
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Fast forward
To fast-forward is to move forwards through a recording at a speed faster than that at which it would usually be played, for example two times or two point five times. The recordings are usually audio, video or computer data. It is colloquiall ...
, forward movement through a recording faster than the speed at which it was recorded
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Femtofarad (fF), a unit of capacitance equal to 1×10
−15 farads
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Fill factor (disambiguation), a term applied in various geometrical models and electronic devices
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Filtration fraction
In renal physiology, the filtration fraction is the ratio of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) over the renal plasma flow (RPF).
Filtration Fraction, FF = GFR/RPF, or FF = \frac.
The filtration fraction, therefore, represents the proportion o ...
, in renal physiology
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Frasnian-Famennian extinction
The Late Devonian mass extinction, also known as the Kellwasser event, was a mass extinction event which occurred around 372 million years ago, at the boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian ages of the Late Devonian period.Racki, 2005McGhee, ...
(F-F), also known as the Late Devonian extinction
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FFmpeg
FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams. At its core is the command-line ffmpeg tool itself, designed for processing vide ...
, a
free and open source
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software modified or not to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free ...
suite of video and audio encoding libraries.
Other uses
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255 (number) (hexadecimal: FF
16), the largest numeric value possible for an unsigned byte
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ff., and the following pages (in a citation)
* FF, a
bra size
Bra size (also known as brassiere measurement or bust size) indicates the size characteristics of a bra to accurately fit the breasts. While there are a number of bra sizing systems in use around the world, the bra sizes usually consist of a numb ...
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False flag
A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on another party. The term "false flag" originated in the 16th century as an expression meaning an intentional misrep ...
, a diversionary or propaganda tactic
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Flirty fishing (FFing), evangelistic prostitution method formerly used by the Children of God
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Follow Friday, a Twitter hashtag
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FontFont
FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces (fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital Type foundry, type foundries.
The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, amo ...
, a font library owned by FontShop International
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Founding Fathers of the United States
The Founding Fathers of the United States, often simply referred to as the Founding Fathers or the Founders, were a group of late-18th-century American Revolution, American revolutionary leaders who United Colonies, united the Thirteen Colon ...
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French Franc
The franc (; , ; currency sign, sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (FF), was a currency of France. Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amoun ...
, a currency
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Frequent flyer
A frequent-flyer programme (FFP) is a loyalty program offered by an airline.
Many airlines have frequent-flyer programmes designed to encourage airline customers enrolled in the programme to accumulate points (also called miles, kilometres, ...
, often abbreviated as FF# on itineraries or travel documents
* FF, a US Navy hull designation for a
frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and maneuvera ...
See also
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FFS (disambiguation)
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FFF (disambiguation)
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F2 (disambiguation)
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2F (disambiguation)
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F (disambiguation)
F is the sixth letter of the Latin alphabet.
F may also refer to:
Science and technology Mathematics
* F or f, the number 15 in hexadecimal and higher positional systems
* ''p'F'q'', the hypergeometric function
* F-distribution, a conti ...
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