FPS may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* "F.P.S." (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), an episode of the TV show ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' * '' fps magazine'', a defunct magazine about animation * '' The Fabulous Picture Show'', a television show on Al Jazeera English *

Facepunch Studios Facepunch Studios Ltd is a British video game developer and video game publisher, publisher headquartered in Walsall, England, founded in June 2004 and incorporated on 17 March 2009 by Garry Newman. The company is most known for its Nonlinear ...

, a British video game developer *

First-person shooter First-person shooter (FPS) is a sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the pl ...

, a video game which focuses typically on shooting guns from a first-person perspective * '' Five Point Someone'', a novel by Chetan Bhagat * Front Porch Step, American musician *

Funday PawPet Show ''Funday PawPet Show'' is an Internet-based puppet show created by Randy "Yappy" Fox in November 1999, broadcast on Sunday nights from 18:00 to 22:00 ET from his home in Kissimmee, Florida. Before November 25, 2007 the show aired from 19:00 to ...

, an Internet puppet show

Education

* Fargo Public Schools, in North Dakota, United States * Foundation Public School, in Pakistan *

French Pastry School The French Pastry School (FPS) is a vocational secondary school located in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Its courses cover pastry, baking and confectionery arts. The French Pastry School is a for-profit school,Ben Goldberger“New Chef ...

, a cooking school in Chicago, Illinois, United States *

Future Problem Solvers Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI), originally known as Future Problem Solving Program (FPSP), and often abbreviated to FPS, is a non-profit educational program that organizes academic competitions in which students apply critic ...

, an educational competition

Financial

* Faster Payments Service, a British banking initiative *

Faster Payment System Faster Payment System (FPS; , more commonly known as 轉數快) is a real-time gross settlement payment system in Hong Kong that connects traditional banks and electronic payment and digital wallet operators. Users are able to perform instant ...

, a Hong Kong payment system

Government and politics

Facilities Protection Service The Facilities Protection Service is an Iraqi paramilitary force tasked with the fixed site protection of Iraqi Government buildings, facilities, and personnel. The FPS includes Oil, Electricity Police and Port Security. It works for all Iraqi go ...

, of the Government of Iraq *

Federal Protective Service (Russia) The Federal Protective Service, or the Federal Guard Service (russian: Федеральная служба охраны, ФСО, Federalnaya sluzhba okhrany, FSO) of the Russian Federation, official name in English Federal Guard Service of the Ru ...

Federal Protective Service (United States) The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is the uniformed police division of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is also "the federal agency charged with protecting and delivering integrated law enforcement and security servi ...

* Federal Public Service, of the Federal Government of Belgium * Free Party Salzburg (German: '), a political party in Austria * Freedom Party of South Tyrol (German: '), a defunct political party in Italy

Science and technology

Units of measure

Foot per second The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time Time is the continued ...

* Foot-pound-second system *

Frames per second A frame is often a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction and/or steel frame that limits the construction's extent. Frame and FRAME may also refer to: Physical objects In building construction * Framing (c ...

, the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) appear on a display

Computing

* FairPlay Streaming, a digital rights management technology by Apple *

Fast packet switching In telecommunications, fast packet switching is a variant of packet switching that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead associated with flow control and error correction functions, which are either offloaded to upper layer networking pr ...

, in networks *

Fitness proportionate selection Fitness proportionate selection, also known as roulette wheel selection, is a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms for selecting potentially useful solutions for recombination. In fitness proportionate selection, as in all selection methods ...

, a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms *

Floating Point Systems Floating Point Systems, Inc. (FPS), was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of attached array processors and minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad, with partners Tom Prince, Frank Bouton and Rober ...

, a defunct American computer hardware company

Other uses in science and technology

* Fear potentiated startle, a reflexive physiological reaction *

Fission power system Nuclear power in space is the use of nuclear power in outer space, typically either small fission systems or radioactive decay for electricity or heat. Another use is for scientific observation, as in a Mössbauer spectrometer. The most common t ...

Focal-plane shutter In camera design, a focal-plane shutter (FPS) is a type of photographic shutter that is positioned immediately in front of the focal plane of the camera, that is, right in front of the photographic film or image sensor. Two-curtain shutters ...

, in optical systems *

Forties pipeline system The Forties pipeline system (FPS) is a major pipeline transport network in the North Sea. It is owned and operated by Ineos and carries 30% of the UK's oil, or about of oil per day, to shore. It carries liquids production from 85 fields in t ...

in the North Sea * Frontal protection system, for vehicles *

Sn-glycerol-3-phosphate 2-alpha-galactosyltransferase In enzymology, a sn-glycerol-3-phosphate 2-alpha-galactosyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction A chemical reaction is a process that leads to the IUPAC nomenclature for organic transformations, chemical transforma ...

, also known as floridoside-phosphate synthase

Sport

FPS (ice hockey) FPS (full name: Forssan Palloseura) is a Finnish ice hockey team based in Forssa Ice Hall (capacity 3000), Forssa, established in 1931. Forssan Palloseura has two lower level teams: FoPS which plays in lower divisions and FoPS Flames which plays ...

, a Finnish ice hockey team *

Frames per stop Frames per stop is a term used in the bowling industry by technicians, manufacturers, and others involved in this recreation industry. The term refers to how many frames, on average, a group of pinsetters is able to operate without a stop, which ...

, a bowling industry term

Other uses

Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) is a professional organisation of Australian pharmacists. PSA is the peak national body for pharmacists, representing all of the pharmacy profession in Australia, with approximately 18,000 members ...

Finchley Progressive Synagogue Finchley Progressive Synagogue (FPS) is a Liberal Judaism congregation in North Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The Rabbi is Rebecca Birk. Synagogue membership is around 350 families. History Finchley Liberal Jewish Congregation was ...