FA, Fa or fa may refer to:

People

* Fa of Xia, King of China 1747–1728 BC * Fa Ngum (1316–1393), founder and ruler of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang

Places

* Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude ' in France *

Falmouth Academy Falmouth Academy is a non-profit, coed, independent, private college-preparatory day school serving students from grades 7–12. It is located in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. History Falmouth Academy was founded in 1977 as a small ...

, a private college-preparatory school in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA *

Foxcroft Academy Foxcroft Academy is a private preparatory high school located in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. Chartered by the Maine legislature in 1823, Foxcroft Academy was established just a few years after the incorporation of the town of F ...

, a private high school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, USA *

Friends Academy Friends Academy is a Quaker, coeducational, independent, college preparatory school serving students from nursery school through the twelfth grade, located in Locust Valley, New York, United States. The school was founded in 1876 by 78-year-old G ...

, a Quaker college preparatory school in Locust Valley, New York, USA *

Fryeburg Academy Fryeburg Academy, founded in 1792, is one of the oldest private schools in the United States, located in Fryeburg, Maine. Among notable faculty, Daniel Webster was one of the first Heads of School, teaching at the school for a year. Boarding stu ...

, a private school in Fryeburg, Maine, USA

Arts and entertainment

Fa (musical note) F is a musical note, the fourth above C or fifth below C. It is the fourth note and the sixth semitone of the solfège. It is also known as fa in fixed-do solfège. It has enharmonic equivalents of E (E-sharp) and G (G-double flat), amongst o ...

, the name for F in fixed-do solfège * Fa Yuiry, a fictional character in ''Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam'' * '' Fantasy Advertiser'', later shortened to ''FA'', a British comics fanzine * ''Firearms'' (video game), a 1998 ''Half-Life'' modification commonly abbreviated as ''FA''

Government, law and politics

* Fa (philosophy), a Chinese philosophical concept covering law, ethics, and logic * Falange Auténtica (Authentic Phalanx), a Falangist political party in Spain * Fisheries Agency, a government agency in Taiwan

Languages and alphabets

Fa (letter) Pe is the seventeenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Pē , Hebrew Pē , Aramaic Pē , Syriac Pē ܦ, and Arabic (in abjadi order). The original sound value is a voiceless bilabial plosive: ; it retains this value ...

, the seventeenth letter of the Arabic abjad *

Faʼ language The Fa language, ''Lefa'' (also ''Fak'' or ''Lefa''), is one of the Bantu languages of Cameroon. References

Bafia languages Languages of Cameroon {{Bantu-lang-stub ...

, one of the Bantu languages of Cameroon * fa, ISO 639-1 code of the Persian language

Math, science, and technology

* Factor analysis, a statistical method * Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease * Fatty acid, a carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic chain * Fayalite, the iron-rich end-member in the olivine solid solution series of minerals * Femtoampere (fA), an SI unit of electric current equal to 10⁻¹⁵ A * Fluorescein angiography, a technique for examining the circulation of the retina and choroid of the eye * Folic acid, one of the B vitamins * Folinic acid, a medication * Fractional anisotropy, a value that describes the anisotropy of a diffusion process * Friedreich's ataxia, an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system * Nikon FA, a 35 mm SLR camera

Military

Field artillery Field artillery is a category of mobile artillery used to support armies in the field. These weapons are specialized for mobility, tactical proficiency, short range, long range, and extremely long range target engagement. Until the early 20t ...

* Focke-Achgelis, a defunct German helicopter manufacturer * Forschungsamt (Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry), the signals intelligence and cryptanalytic agency of the German Nazi Party * Frankford Arsenal, a former US Army ammunition plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania *

Frontal Aviation The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...

(Frontovaya Aviatsiya or "FA"), a branch of the Soviet Air Forces focused on battlefield air defence

Sport

* The Football Association, the body that regulates football in England * First ascent, in climbing * Free agent

Transport

* ALCO FA, an American locomotive made by ALCO * Toyota FA, a heavy duty truck *

Area forecast An Aviation Area Forecast (FA or ARFOR) was a message product of the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States. It has been replaced by ''Graphic Area Forecasts'', or ''GFA'', in 2017. There are also weather charts forecast like SIGWX. F ...

, in aviation * '' Ferrocarriles Argentinos'', Argentine railways * Safair (IATA airline designator FA), a South African aviation company * NZR F^A Class, aclass of steam locomotive used on New Zealand Railways

Other uses

* F.A. or Intermediate of Arts, an academic diploma *

Fa (brand) Fa is an international brand for personal care products. It is a subsidiary of German company Henkel AG. Fa products include skin care lotions, Cream (pharmaceutical), creams and gels, as well as shower gels, bubble baths, soaps and deodorants. N ...

, a brand for personal care products * Fa or Fall (unit), an obsolete Scottish measurement of length * Fat admirer, a person attracted to overweight women * Financial adviser, a professional who renders financial services to clients * Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), a program of recovery based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous