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 inc ...

* FS Film, a Finnish film distributor *

Flight simulator A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...

, a professional simulator of planes ** Amateur flight simulation, a video game version of simulators ***''

Microsoft Flight Simulator ''Microsoft Flight Simulator'' is a series of amateur flight simulator programs for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and earlier for MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS. It was an early product in the Microsoft application portfolio and differed sig ...

'', 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 M ...

'', 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 estat ...

'', Italian state railways *

First ScotRail First ScotRail was a train operating company in Scotland owned by FirstGroup which operated the ScotRail franchise from October 2004 until March 2015. Prior to October 2004, trains were run by ScotRail (National Express). First ScotRail was s ...

, a British rail train operator *

ItAli Airlines ItAli Airlines S.p.A. was an airline based in Rome. It operated regional scheduled, charter and cargo services, as well as air taxi flights. Its main base was Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino International Airport, Rome. History The airline sta ...

(IATA airline designator FS) * FS

Trenitalia Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail tra ...

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 Fin ...

, a Business School in Frankfurt, Germany * FS Investments, a fund management firm based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. * FS Services, now Growmark, an agricultural supply cooperative * Full Sail Real World Education, a university in Florida dedicated to real world education in the entertainment industry *

Future Shop Future Shop was a Canadian electronics store chain. It was established in 1982 by Hassan Khosrowshahi. By 1990, the chain had become the country's largest retailer of computer and consumer electronics. In January 2013, the company operated 139 l ...

, a defunct Canadian consumer electronics retailer

Mathematics, science, and technology

Computing

FS register x86 (also known as 80x86 or the 8086 family) is a family of complex instruction set computer (CISC) instruction set architectures initially developed by Intel based on the Intel 8086 microprocessor and its 8088 variant. The 8086 was intr ...

, 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 cursor, ...

* File server, a form of disk storage * File system, in computer science and database theory *

Flipnote Studio ''Flipnote Studio'', originally released in Japan as , was a free downloadable application available through the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare digital distribution service. Developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo, ''Flipnote Studio'' allowed the user to create ...

, a DSi animation software *

Forward secrecy In cryptography, forward secrecy (FS), also known as perfect forward secrecy (PFS), is a feature of specific key agreement protocols that gives assurances that session keys will not be compromised even if long-term secrets used in the session key ...

, a property of cryptographic systems * Fullscreen, a picture format in 4:3 aspect ratio, as opposed to widescreen *

IBM Future Systems project The Future Systems project (FS) was a research and development project undertaken in IBM in the early 1970s, aiming to develop a revolutionary line of computer products, including new software models which would simplify software development by ex ...

a failed IBM project to develop a computer line to replace System/360 *

Feature structure In phrase structure grammars, such as generalised phrase structure grammar, head-driven phrase structure grammar and lexical functional grammar, a feature structure is essentially a set of attribute–value pairs. For example, the attribute name ...

, a set of attribute–value pairs

Health and medicine

Felty's syndrome Felty's syndrome (FS), also called Felty syndrome, is rare autoimmune disease characterized by the triad of rheumatoid arthritis, enlargement of the spleen and low neutrophil count. The condition is more common in those aged 50–70 years, specifi ...

, autoimmune disease, with rheumatoid arthritis, enlargement of the spleen and too few neutrophils in the blood *

Fibrin sealant Fibrin glue (also called fibrin sealant) is a surgical formulation used to create a fibrin clot for hemostasis, cartilage repair surgeries or wound healing. It contains separately packaged human fibrinogen and human thrombin. Medical uses This ...

, a type of surgical tissue adhesive used during surgery to control bleeding * Flight Surgeon, a physician who is responsible for the medical evaluation, certification and treatment of aviation personnel *

Fractional shortening A ventricle is one of two large chambers toward the bottom of the heart that collect and expel blood towards the peripheral beds within the body and lungs. The blood pumped by a ventricle is supplied by an atrium, an adjacent chamber in the upper ...

of the heart * ''

Formularium Slovenicum ''Formularium Slovenicum'' is Slovenian addendum to the ''European Pharmacopoeia''. It promotes Slovenian pharmaceutical terminology and the regulations affecting the field of pharmacy in Slovenia.Farmacevtski terminološki slovar harmaceutical T ...

'', Slovenian addendum to the European Pharmacopoeia

Mathematics

* Fourier series, a mathematical tool used for analyzing periodic functions *

Sampling rate In signal processing, sampling is the reduction of a continuous-time signal to a discrete-time signal. A common example is the conversion of a sound wave to a sequence of "samples". A sample is a value of the signal at a point in time and/or s ...

(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) felds ...

, a group of silicate minerals * Femtosecond, 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 A ...

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 flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes. It includes replicating the equations that govern how aircraft fly, how they rea ...

, a machine that tries to replicate the experience of flying *

Formula Student Formula Student is a student engineering competition held annually in the UK. Student teams from around the world design, build, test, and race a small-scale formula style racing car. The cars are judged on a number of criteria as listed below ...

, a student engineering competition held annually in the UK * Frameshift mutation, 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, full scale represents the maximum amplitude a system can represent. In digital systems, a signal is said to be at digital full scale when its magnitude has reached the maximum representable value. Once a si ...

, in electronics and signal processing, the maximum amplitude a system can present *

Marine flooding surface Marine flooding surfaces are a fundamental concept in sequence stratigraphy, where they form the limiting surfaces of parasequences. A marine flooding surfaces is defined as a sharp contact that separates overlying younger strata with deep-water ...

, 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 ope ...

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

Sport

* Fox Sports (United States) **

FS1 Fox Sports 1 (FS1) is an American pay television channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. FS1 replaced the motorsports network Speed on August 17, 2013, at the same time that its companion channel Fox Sports 2 ...

, Fox Sports 1 **

FS2 Fox Sports 2 (FS2) is an American sports-oriented pay television channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. The channel is based at the Fox Sports division's headquarters on the Fox Studio Lot in the Century Cit ...

, Fox Sports 2 * Free safety, 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 Federal Standard 595, known as SAE AMS-STD-595 – Colors Used in Government Procurement, formerly FED-STD-595, is a United States Federal Standard for colors, issued by the General Services Administration. History FED-STD-595, 595A, and 5 ...

, 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 Foundation Stage is the British government label for the education of pupils aged 2 to 5 in England. In Northern Ireland, it is also used to refer to the first two years of compulsory education for pupils aged 4 to 6. England Foundation Stage 1 ta ...

, term used for early childhood education in the United Kingdom * Franco's Spain, Spain under the leadership of Francisco Franco *

French Southern Territories The French Southern and Antarctic Lands (french: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) is an Overseas Territory (french: Territoire d'outre-mer or ) of France. It consists of: # Adélie Land (), the French claim on the continent ...

(FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code); excludes the Terre Adélie portion of Antarctica * Full service (disambiguation) {{disambiguation