FOS or Fos may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Fos'' (EP), by Elena Paparizou *

Fortress of Solitude The Fortress of Solitude is a fictional fortress appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Superman. It is the place where Superman first learned about his true identity, heritage, and purpose on Eart ...

, fictional base of Superman

Food

French onion soup French onion soup ( ) is a soup of onions, gently fried and then cooked in meat stock or water, usually served gratinéed with croutons or a larger piece of bread covered with cheese floating on top. Onion soups were known in France since med ...

, a dish *

Fructooligosaccharide Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, are oligosaccharide fructans, used as an alternative sweetener. FOS exhibits sweetness levels between 30 and 50 percent of sugar in commercially prepared syrups. ...

, a sweetener

Government, law and military

Financial Ombudsman Service The Financial Ombudsman Service is an ombudsman in the United Kingdom. It was established in 2000, and given statutory powers in 2001 by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, to help settle disputes between consumers and UK-based busi ...

, in the United Kingdom *

Financial Ombudsman Service (Australia) The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) was a member-funded Australian ombudsman service that provided external dispute resolution for consumers who were unable to resolve complaints with member financial services organisations. The Financial Ombud ...

Forward Operating Site A forward operating site (FOS) or forward operating location (FOL) is a U.S. military term for facilities, defined as "a scalable, 'warm' facility that can support sustained operations, but with only a small permanent presence of support or contra ...

, in the U.S. military *

Freedom of speech Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The rights, right to freedom of expression has been r ...

, a human right *

Future Office System FOS (Future Office System) is a workflow and case management system developed by Anite and used by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for the processing of criminal cases in Scotland, United Kingdom. From 43 offices throughout Scotland, ...

, Scottish prosecutors' case system

People

Fos Williams Foster Neil "Fos" Williams (21 February 1922 – 1 September 2001) was a leading Australian rules footballer who played for and coached the Port Adelaide Football Club, Port Adelaide and West Adelaide Football Clubs and coached South Adelaide ...

(1922–2001), Australian-rules footballer * Peter J. Fos (born 1949), American academic administrator

Places

Fos, Haute-Garonne Fos (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Population See also * GR 10 (France) *Communes of the Haute-Garonne department The following is a list of the 586 communes in the French department of Haute ...

, France *

Fos, Hérault Fos (; Languedocien: ''Fòs'') is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France. Winemaking Fos is one of the seven communes which produces Faugères AOC wine. Population See also *Communes of the Hérault department A commun ...

, France *

Fos-sur-Mer Fos-sur-Mer (, literally ''Fos on Sea''; Provençal: ''Fòs'') is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France. Geography Fos-sur-Mer is situated about north west of Marseille, on the Mediterranean coast, and to the w ...

, Bouches-du-Rhône, France *

Marseille-Fos Port Marseille-Fos Port () is the main trade seaport of France. In 2011, the port had an overall traffic of 88 million tons. It is the tenth- largest cruise port in the world and the third-largest in the Mediterranean. It has two main sites: in northe ...

, France *

Forrest Airport Forrest Airport is an airport located in the hamlet of Forrest, Western Australia. The airport is clearly visible from the ''Indian Pacific'' train, which services the Trans-Australian Railway. History The airport was built by the Departmen ...

, Western Australian refuelling airfield, IATA code FOS * ''French Overseas Territories'', UNDP country code, see

Overseas territory (France) The term overseas territory (, TOM) is an administrative division of France and is currently only applied to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. The division differs from that of overseas department and region ( or DROM), but because o ...

Science and technology

* Fabric OS, in networking *

Factor of safety In engineering, a factor of safety (FoS) or safety factor (SF) expresses how much stronger a system is than it needs to be for its specified maximum load. Safety factors are often calculated using detailed analysis because comprehensive testing i ...

, in engineering *

Feature-oriented scanning Feature-oriented scanning (FOS) is a method of precision measurement of surface topography with a scanning probe microscope in which surface features (objects) are used as reference points for microscope probe attachment. With FOS method, by pass ...

, in microscopy *

Faint Object Spectrograph The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 1997, and is now on display in the National Air and Space Museum The National Air a ...

, on the Hubble Space Telescope *

Fields of Science and Technology Fields of Science and Technology (FOS) is a compulsory classification for statistics of branches of scholarly and technical fields, published by the OECD in 2002. It was created out of the need to interchange data of research facilities, research ...

, a classification for academic statistics *

Flowers of sulfur Flowers of sulfur (British spelling flowers of sulphur) is a very fine, bright yellow sulfur powder (substance), powder that is produced by sublimation (phase transition)#Purification by sublimation, sublimation and deposition (phase transition), ...

* Flowers of sulfur tests

Molecular biology

FOS-family transcription factors: *

c-Fos Protein c-Fos is a proto-oncogene that is the human homolog of the retroviral oncogene v-fos. It is encoded in humans by the ''FOS'' gene. It was first discovered in rat fibroblasts as the transforming gene of the FBJ MSV (Finkel–Biskis–Ji ...

, a proto-oncogene *

FosB Protein fosB, also known as FosB and G0/G1 switch regulatory protein 3 (G0S3), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FBJ murine osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog B (''FOSB'') gene. The FOS gene family consists of four members: FOS, F ...

, a proto-oncogene *

ΔFosB Protein fosB, also known as FosB and G0/G1 switch regulatory protein 3 (G0S3), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FBJ murine osteosarcoma viral oncogene homolog B (''FOSB'') gene. The FOS gene family consists of four members: FOS, F ...

, a truncated splice variant of FosB *

FOSL1 Fos-related antigen 1 (FRA1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''FOSL1'' gene. Function The Fos gene family consists of 4 members: c-Fos, FOSB, FOSL1, and FOSL2. These genes encode leucine zipper proteins that can dimerize with pro ...

, Fos-related antigen 1 *

FOSL2 Fos-related antigen 2 (FRA2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''FOSL2'' gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides in DNA tha ...

, Fos-related antigen 2

Other uses

* Florida Ornithological Society, United States *

FOS Open Scouting FOS Open Scouting or FOS is a pluralistic, internationally oriented, coeducational, Flemish Scout and Guide organisation in Belgium and is a member of the Guidisme et Scoutisme en Belgique/Gidsen- en Scoutsbeweging in België (GSB, Guides and ...

, a Belgian youth organisation *

Goodwood Festival of Speed The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual motorsports festival featuring modern and historic motor racing vehicles taking part in a hillclimbing, hillclimb and other events, held in Goodwood House, West Sussex, in late June or early July. Th ...

, an English hill-climbing event {{disambiguation, geo, surname