Fast or FAST may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* "Fast" (Juice Wrld song), 2019 * "Fast" (Luke Bryan song), 2016 * "Fast" (Sueco song), 2019 * "Fast" (GloToven song), 2019 * ''Fast'', an album by Custom, 2002 * ''Fast'', a 2010 short film starring Charlyne Yi * " Fast (Motion)", 2021 song by Saweetie * '' Fast & Furious'', an action franchise

Computing and software

* FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming * FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm * Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering * Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool, software to develop work schedules * Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection * Feedback arc set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory

Government

* Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi, a political party in Samoa * Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, passed by the United States Congress * Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams, a former program of the US Drug Enforcement Administration; see * Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States and Mexico-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

Military

* Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a unit of the United States Marine Corps * Fuel And Sensor Tactical packs, a type of conformal fuel tank developed for the F-15 * Future Assault Shell Technology helmet, an American combat helmet

Organizations

* FAST Multimedia AG, former company located in Munich; vendor of graphics boards, video frame grabbers and video processing software; later consumed by Pinnacle Systems * FAST and later as Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies * Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, an aviation museum * Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software * Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade * Firefighter assist and search team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters * Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology

People

People with the given name

* Fast Robinson (born 1994), English actor known professionally as Eddie-Joe Robinson

People with the surname

* Alexia Fast (born 1992), Canadian actress * Christian Fast (1762–1841), American soldier and pioneer * Herman Becker Fast (1887–1945), American businessman, farmer, and politician * Howard Fast (1914–2003), American novelist and television writer * Jesper Fast (born 1991), Swedish ice hockey player * Jonathan Fast (born 1948), American author, son of Howard Fast * Julius Fast (1919–2008), American author, brother of Howard Fast * Matt Fast, lead singer of the Canadian punk band The Undecided * Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), American author, daughter of Jonathan Fast * Piotr Fast (born 1951), Polish professor and translator

People with the nickname

* Brian Leiser (born 1972), nicknamed "Fast", musician, member of the band Fun Lovin' Criminals * Fast Eddie (disambiguation)

Science and medicine

FAST (stroke) FAST is an acronym used as a Mnemonic, mnemonic device to help early recognition and detection of the signs and symptoms of a stroke. The acronym stands for Facial drooping, Arm (or leg) weakness, Speech difficulties and Time to call emergency ser ...

(Face, Arm, Speech, and Time), a mnemonic for the symptoms of a stroke * Family System Test, a visualization method for representing cohesion and hierarchy constellations in families and similar social systems * Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory * Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft * Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (), a large single-dish radio telescope in Guizhou province, China * Fluorescence-activating and absorption-shifting tag, genetically encoded protein tag used in molecular biology * Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient * Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method * Future Attribute Screening Technology

Other uses

* Fast Product, a record label * '' Faceted Application of Subject Terminology'', a thesaurus of subject headings * Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition * Fairfield and Suisun Transit * Free ad-supported streaming television * USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies