FAP may refer to:

Technology and industry

FORTRAN Assembly Program The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale ( mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes several different, incompatible processor architectures. The 700s use vacuum-tube lo ...

, the macro assembler for some IBM mainframe computers * Fair Access Policy, a term for a bandwidth cap, limiting Internet usage *

Femtocell In telecommunications, a femtocell is a small, low-power cellular base station, typically designed for use in a home or small business. A broader term which is more widespread in the industry is '' small cell'', with ''femtocell'' as a subset. It ...

(Femto Access Point), a small cellular telephone base station *

Fabrika automobila Priboj Korporacija Fabrika automobila Priboj ( sr, Корпорација Фабрика Аутомобила Прибој, Korporacija Fabrika Automobila Priboj; abbr. FAP) is a Serbian automotive manufacturer of military vehicles and with the headqu ...

, a motor vehicle manufacturer based in Priboj, Serbia *

Diesel particulate filter A diesel particulate filter (DPF) is a device designed to remove diesel particulate matter or soot from the exhaust gas of a diesel engine.Tom Nash (May 2003) "Diesels: The Smoke is clearing", ''Motor '' Vol.199 No. 5, p. 54, Hearst Business Publ ...

(French, ''filtre à particules''), a filter for motor exhaust gas *

Film Academy of the Philippines Established in 1981, the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) is the Philippines' official counterpart of the United States' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The FAP was founded through Executive Order 640-A issued by the President o ...

, 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 human ...

, 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 conting ...

, clinical psychotherapy that uses a "radical behaviorist" position *

Familial adenomatous polyposis Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is an autosomal dominant inherited condition in which numerous Adenomatous polyps, adenomatous Colorectal polyp, polyps form mainly in the epithelium of the colon (anatomy), large intestine. While these polyps s ...

, a condition where polyps form in the large intestine *

Familial amyloid polyneuropathy Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, also called transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis, transthyretin amyloidosis abbreviated also as ATTR (hereditary form), or Corino de Andrade's disease, is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disease. It ...

, a neurodegenerative, genetically transmitted disease *

Fixed action pattern A fixed action pattern is an ethological term describing an instinctive behavioral sequence that is highly stereotyped and species-characteristic. Fixed action patterns are said to be produced by the innate releasing mechanism, a "hard-wired" neura ...

, 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 s ...

, a human gene, encoding for the fibroblast activation protein *

Fas-associated phosphatase Tyrosine-protein phosphatase non-receptor type 13 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''PTPN13'' gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) family. PTPs are known to be signaling molecule ...

, 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) The Broad Progressive Front ( es, Frente Amplio Progresista, FAP) was a centre-left coalition in Argentina, created in 2011, integrated of progressive and social democratic political parties focusing on an advanced and transparent welfare state. ...

(''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 *

Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States. Under national director Holger Cahill, it was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administrati ...

, 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 The People's Armed Forces (''Forces Armées Populaires'' or FAP) was a Chadian insurgent group composed of followers of Goukouni Oueddei after the schism with Hissène Habré in 1976. With an ethnic base in the Teda clan of the Toubou from the Ti ...

(''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 The Peruvian Air Force ( es, link=no, Fuerza Aérea del Perú, FAP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with defending the nation and its interests through the use of air power. Additional missions include assistance in safeguardin ...

(''Fuerza Aérea del Peru'') *

Portuguese Air Force , colours = , colours_label = , march = , mascot = , anniversaries = 1 July , equipment = , equipment_label ...

(''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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