FAP may refer to:

Technology and industry

* FORTRAN Assembly Program, the macro assembler for some IBM mainframe computers * Fair Access Policy, a term for a bandwidth cap, limiting Internet usage * Femtocell (Femto Access Point), a small cellular telephone base station * Fabrika automobila Priboj, a motor vehicle manufacturer based in Priboj, Serbia * Diesel particulate filter (French, ''filtre à particules''), a filter for motor exhaust gas * Film Academy of the Philippines, the Philippines' official counterpart of the United States' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences *

Face Animation Parameter A Face Animation Parameter (FAP) is a component of the MPEG-4 Face and Body Animation (FBA) International Standard (ISO/IE14496-1 developed by the Moving Pictures Experts Group. It describes a standard for virtually representing humans and humanoid ...

, part of the MPEG-4 face animation standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group

Science and medicine

Functional analytic psychotherapy Functional analytic psychotherapy (FAP) is a psychotherapeutic approach based on clinical behavior analysis (CBA) that focuses on the therapeutic relationship as a means to maximize client change. Specifically, FAP suggests that in-session continge ...

, clinical psychotherapy that uses a "radical behaviorist" position * Familial adenomatous polyposis, a condition where polyps form in the large intestine * Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, a neurodegenerative, genetically transmitted disease * Fixed action pattern, an instinctive animal behavioral sequence * Filamentous anoxygenic phototroph, a descriptive term for the Chloroflexia class of photosynthetic bacteria *

FAP (gene) Fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP-alpha) also known as prolyl endopeptidase FAP is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FAP gene. Prolyl endopeptidase FAP is a 170 kDa membrane-bound gelatinase. It was independently identified as a su ...

, a human gene, encoding for the fibroblast activation protein * Fas-associated phosphatase, a molecule that inhibits the effect of Fas ligand to make cells initiate apoptosis *

Final Anthropic Principle Frank Jennings Tipler (born February 1, 1947) is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist, holding a joint appointment in the Departments of Mathematics and Physics at Tulane University. Tipler has written books and papers on the Omeg ...

, a generalization of the Anthropic Principle, proposed by physicists Frank J. Tipler and John D. Barrow

Politics, government, and armed forces

* Broad Progressive Front (Argentina) (''FAP - Frente Amplio Progresista''), One of the major national parties at the Argentine Republic. * Federal-aid primary highway system, part of the United States

Federal-aid highway program The U.S. federal-aid highway program was commenced in 1916, with milestones of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. The federal-aid highway system consists of three parts: *The Interstate Highway System (FAI route ...

* Federal Art Project, the visual arts arm of the US Great Depression-era Federal One program *

FREE Australia Party The FREE Australia Party, fully the Freedom Rights Environment Educate Australia Party, is a defunct minor political party in South Australia founded by Paul Kuhn. It opposed SA Labor anti- bikie laws and promotes civil liberties. It ran at the ...

, an Australian political party *

Free German Workers' Party The Free German Workers' Party (german: link=no, Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; abbreviated FAP) was a neo-Nazi political party in Germany. It was outlawed by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1995. History The FAP was founded in 1 ...

(''Freiheitliche Arbeiter Partei''), a former German political party * People's Armed Forces (''Forces Armées Populaires''), a Chadian insurgent group *

Peronist Armed Forces The Peronist Armed Forces ( es, Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas, FAP) was an Argentine left-wing Peronist urban guerrilla group created in 1968 active during the 1960s and 1970s. The organization apply strike directly against the Argentina state force ...

, (''Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas''), an Argentine guerrilla group operating in the 1960s and 1970s * Peruvian Air Force (''Fuerza Aérea del Peru'') *

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(''Força Aérea Portuguesa'')

Other

Feminist Art Program The Feminist Art Program (FAP) was a college-level art program for women developed in 1970 by artist Judy Chicago and continued by artists Rita Yokoi, Miriam Schapiro, and others. The FAP began at Fresno State College, as a way to address gender in ...

, an art program for women only * Fapping, a slang term for

masturbation Masturbation is the sexual stimulation of one's own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation may involve hands, fingers, everyday objects, sex toys such as vibrators, or combinatio ...

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