FS, fS or fs may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

FS (musician) FS (real name Fred Sargolini) is an American dubstep producer and DJ from New York City.compositions by Carl Nielsen This table of works by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen initially lists them by genre and composition date within a genre. History Nielsen wrote music in many genres, notably symphonies, concertos and choral music, but also operas and i ...

* FS Film, a Finnish film distributor * Flight simulator, a professional simulator of planes ** Amateur flight simulation, a video game version of simulators ***'' Microsoft Flight Simulator'', an amateur flight simulator series ****''

Microsoft Flight Simulator X ''Microsoft Flight Simulator X'' (abbreviated as ''FSX'') is a 2006 flight simulation video game originally developed by Aces Game Studio and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Microsoft Windows. It is the sequel to ''Microsoft Flight ...

'', the 2006 edition, commonly referred to as ''FSX'' **** ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' (2020 video game), the 2020 edition, commonly referred to as ''FS''

Businesses and organizations

In transportation

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Ferrocarril de Sóller The Ferrocarril de Sóller (; en, Railway of Sóller), acronym FS, is an interurban railway and the name for the company which operates the electrified narrow gauge tracks running between the towns of Sóller and Palma on the Spanish island of ...

'', a railway on Majorca * ''

Ferrovie dello Stato Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. ( "Italian Railways of the State"; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the abbreviation FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estate ...

'', Italian state railways * First ScotRail, a British rail train operator * ItAli Airlines (IATA airline designator FS) * FS Trenitalia Italian railway company

Other businesses and organizations

Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a private university with a right to award doctorates, recognized under Hesse’s Higher Education Act. The parent organization is the Frankfurt School of Fina ...

, a Business School in Frankfurt, Germany * FS Investments, a fund management firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. * FS Services, now

Growmark Growmark, Inc., is a regional agricultural supply cooperative operating in more than 40 states and one operation in Ontario, Canada. Its local member cooperatives commonly use the name FS ("Farm Supply"). Growmark ranks 74th on the ICA Global 3 ...

, an agricultural supply cooperative *

Full Sail Real World Education Full Sail University is a private for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts. The school moved to Florida in 1980 and bega ...

, a university in Florida dedicated to real world education in the entertainment industry * Future Shop, a defunct Canadian consumer electronics retailer

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

* FS register, in X86fs computer architecture * File Separator, a character in the

C0 and C1 control codes The C0 and C1 control code or control character sets define control codes for use in text by computer systems that use ASCII and derivatives of ASCII. The codes represent additional information about the text, such as the position of a curso ...

File server In computing, a file server (or fileserver) is a computer attached to a network that provides a location for shared disk access, i.e. storage of computer files (such as text, image, sound, video) that can be accessed by the workstations that are ab ...

, a form of disk storage *

File system In computing, file system or filesystem (often abbreviated to fs) is a method and data structure that the operating system uses to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, data placed in a storage medium would be one lar ...

, in computer science and database theory * Flipnote Studio, a DSi animation software * Forward secrecy, a property of cryptographic systems * Fullscreen, a picture format in 4:3 aspect ratio, as opposed to widescreen * IBM Future Systems project a failed IBM project to develop a computer line to replace System/360 * Feature structure, a set of attribute–value pairs

Health and medicine

* Felty's syndrome, autoimmune disease, with rheumatoid arthritis, enlargement of the spleen and too few neutrophils in the blood * Fibrin sealant, a type of surgical tissue adhesive used during surgery to control bleeding *

Flight Surgeon A flight surgeon is a military medical officer practicing in the clinical field of aviation medicine. Although the term "flight surgery" is considered improper by purists, it may occasionally be encountered. Flight surgeons are physicians (MD ...

, a physician who is responsible for the medical evaluation, certification and treatment of aviation personnel * Fractional shortening of the heart * '' Formularium Slovenicum'', Slovenian addendum to the European Pharmacopoeia

Mathematics

Fourier series A Fourier series () is a summation of harmonically related sinusoidal functions, also known as components or harmonics. The result of the summation is a periodic function whose functional form is determined by the choices of cycle length (or '' ...

, a mathematical tool used for analyzing periodic functions * Sampling rate (symbol

f_s

), in communications theory

Other uses in science and technology

Feldspar Feldspars are a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium. The most common members of the feldspar group are the ''plagioclase'' (sodium-calcium) feld ...

, a group of silicate minerals *

Femtosecond A femtosecond is a unit of time in the International System of Units (SI) equal to 10 or of a second; that is, one quadrillionth, or one millionth of one billionth, of a second. For context, a femtosecond is to a second as a second is to about 3 ...

, an SI unit of time * Femtosiemens, an SI unit of electric conductance * Fin-stabilized projectile, such as the

APFSDS Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), long dart penetrator, or simply dart ammunition, is a type of kinetic energy penetrator ammunition used to attack modern vehicle armour. As an armament for main battle tanks, it succeeds ...

HEAT In thermodynamics, heat is defined as the form of energy crossing the boundary of a thermodynamic system by virtue of a temperature difference across the boundary. A thermodynamic system does not ''contain'' heat. Nevertheless, the term is ...

-FS * Fine structure, in atomic physics *

Flank speed Flank speed is an American nautical term referring to a ship's true maximum speed but it is not equivalent to the term ''full speed ahead''. Usually, flank speed is reserved for situations in which a ship finds itself in imminent danger, such as ...

, a ship's true maximum speed * Flight Simulator, a machine that tries to replicate the experience of flying * Formula Student, a student engineering competition held annually in the UK *

Frameshift mutation A frameshift mutation (also called a framing error or a reading frame shift) is a genetic mutation caused by indels (gene insertion, insertions or genetic deletion, deletions) of a number of nucleotides in a DNA sequence that is not divisible by ...

, a genetic mutation *

Fujita scale The Fujita scale (F-Scale; ), or Fujita–Pearson scale (FPP scale), is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation. The official Fujita scale category is deter ...

(F-Scale), or Fujita-Pearson scale, a scale for rating tornado intensity * Full scale, in electronics and signal processing, the maximum amplitude a system can present * Marine flooding surface, a sharp contact between deep-water and shallow-water facies in sequence stratigraphy

Military

Fire Support Fire support is defined by the United States Department of Defense as " Fires that directly support land, maritime, amphibious, and special operations forces to engage enemy forces, combat formations, and facilities in pursuit of tactical and o ...

, artillery or close air support for combat operations * Flight Sergeant, a non-commissioned officer in some air forces *

, physician primarily responsible for the medical evaluation, certification and treatment of aviation personnel * French Ship, a NATO prefix for ships of the

French Navy The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in th ...

Sport

* Fox Sports (United States) ** FS1, Fox Sports 1 ** FS2, Fox Sports 2 *

Free safety Safety is a position in gridiron football on the defense. The safeties are defensive backs who line up ten to fifteen yards from the line of scrimmage. There are two variations of the position: the free safety and the strong safety. Their dutie ...

, one variation of the defensive back position in American football * Free skating, the second part of a figure skating competition

Other uses

* Federal Standard 595, a United States federal standard defining color shades *

Financial Secretary (Hong Kong) The Financial Secretary () is the title held by the Hong Kong government minister who is responsible for all economic and financial matters (“Department of Finance” per Article 60 of the Basic Law). The position is among the three most sen ...

* For Sale (disambiguation) * Foundation Stage, term used for early childhood education in the United Kingdom *

Franco's Spain Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spani ...

, Spain under the leadership of Francisco Franco * French Southern Territories (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code); excludes the Terre Adélie portion of Antarctica *

Full service (disambiguation) Full service or Full Service may refer to: * Full-service radio, a wide range of programming * Full Service Network, a communications company Entertainment * "Full Service", a song by the New Kids on the Block from their album ''The Block'' * Fu ...

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