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Arts and entertainment

* "F.P.S." (''Law & Order: Criminal Intent''), an episode of the TV show ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' * '' fps magazine'', a defunct magazine about animation * ''
The Fabulous Picture Show ''The Fabulous Picture Show'' is a television series on Al Jazeera English dedicated to international films. It is presented by Al Jazeera entertainment editor Amanda Palmer. The show features reports and interviews with filmmakers and actors, wi ...
'', a television show on Al Jazeera English *
Facepunch Studios Facepunch Studios Ltd is a British video game developer and publisher headquartered in Walsall, England, founded in June 2004 and incorporated on 17 March 2009 by Garry Newman. The company is most known for its sandbox video game ''Garry's Mo ...
, a British video game developer *
First-person shooter First-person shooter (FPS) is a sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the pl ...
, a video game which focuses typically on shooting guns from a first-person perspective * ''
Five Point Someone ''Five Point Someone: What not to do at IIT'' is a 2004 novel written by Indian author Chetan Bhagat. The book has sold over a million copies worldwide. The films ''3 Idiots'' and ''Nanban'' are based on the book. It was also adapted into a pl ...
'', a novel by Chetan Bhagat * Front Porch Step, American musician *
Funday PawPet Show ''Funday PawPet Show'' is an Internet show, Internet-based puppet show created by Randy "Yappy" Fox in November 1999, broadcast on Sunday nights from 18:00 to 22:00 Eastern Time Zone, ET from his home in Kissimmee, Florida. Before November 25, 2 ...
, an Internet puppet show


Education

* Fargo Public Schools, in North Dakota, United States *
Foundation Public School Foundation Public School (FPS) is a private school based in Karachi , Hyderabad and Islamabad Pakistan, educating children from the ages of three and a half to eighteen, including O and A Levels. The school has nine campuses, one in Hyderabad offe ...
, in Pakistan * French Pastry School, a cooking school in Chicago, Illinois, United States *
Future Problem Solvers Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI), originally known as Future Problem Solving Program (FPSP), and often abbreviated to FPS, is a non-profit educational program that organizes academic competitions in which students apply critic ...
, an educational competition


Financial

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Faster Payments Service The Faster Payments Service (FPS) is a United Kingdom banking initiative to reduce payment times between different banks' customer accounts to typically a few seconds, from the three working days that transfers usually take using the long-estab ...
, a British banking initiative *
Faster Payment System Faster Payment System (FPS; , more commonly known as 轉數快) is a real-time gross settlement payment system in Hong Kong that connects traditional banks and electronic payment and digital wallet operators. Users are able to perform instant mo ...
, a Hong Kong payment system


Government and politics

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Facilities Protection Service The Facilities Protection Service is an Iraqi paramilitary force tasked with the fixed site protection of Iraqi Government buildings, facilities, and personnel. The FPS includes Oil, Electricity Police and Port Security. It works for all Iraqi gov ...
, of the Government of Iraq *
Federal Protective Service (Russia) The Federal Protective Service, or the Federal Guard Service (russian: Федеральная служба охраны, ФСО, Federalnaya sluzhba okhrany, FSO) of the Russian Federation, official name in English Federal Guard Service of the Ru ...
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Federal Protective Service (United States) The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is the uniformed police division of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is also "the federal agency charged with protecting and delivering integrated law enforcement and security servi ...
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Federal Public Service The Federal Government of Belgium ( nl, Federale regering, french: Gouvernement fédéral, german: Föderalregierung) exercises executive power in the Kingdom of Belgium. It consists of ministers and secretary of state ("junior", or deputy-mini ...
, of the Federal Government of Belgium *
Free Party Salzburg Free Party Salzburg (german: Freie Partei Salzburg, FPS) was a political party in Austria active in the State of Salzburg. History The FPS was established in June 2015 as a split from the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Prior to the split confl ...
(German: '), a political party in Austria *
Freedom Party of South Tyrol The Freedom Party of South Tyrol (german: Freiheitliche Partei Südtirols, FPS) was a regionalist national-liberal political party in South Tyrol. History It was launched in 1988 as the continuation of the Party of Independents by Gerold Merane ...
(German: '), a defunct political party in Italy


Science and technology


Units of measure

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Foot per second The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s). The correspond ...
* Foot-pound-second system *
Frames per second A frame is often a structural system that supports other components of a physical construction and/or steel frame that limits the construction's extent. Frame and FRAME may also refer to: Physical objects In building construction *Framing (con ...
, the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) appear on a display


Computing

* FairPlay Streaming, a digital rights management technology by Apple *
Fast packet switching In telecommunications, fast packet switching is a variant of packet switching that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead associated with flow control and error correction functions, which are either offloaded to upper layer networking p ...
, in networks *
Fitness proportionate selection Fitness proportionate selection, also known as roulette wheel selection, is a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms for selecting potentially useful solutions for recombination. In fitness proportionate selection, as in all selection method ...
, a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms *
Floating Point Systems Floating Point Systems, Inc. (FPS), was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of attached array processors and minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad, with partners Tom Prince, Frank Bouton and Robe ...
, a defunct American computer hardware company


Other uses in science and technology

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Fear potentiated startle Fear-potentiated startle (FPS) is a reflexive physiological reaction to a presented stimulus, and is an indicator of the fear reaction in an organism. The FPS response can be elicited in the face of any threatening stimulus (e.g., any object, perso ...
, a reflexive physiological reaction *
Fission power system Nuclear power in space is the use of nuclear power in outer space, typically either small fission systems or radioactive decay for electricity or heat. Another use is for scientific observation, as in a Mössbauer spectrometer. The most common ...
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Focal-plane shutter In camera design, a focal-plane shutter (FPS) is a type of photographic shutter that is positioned immediately in front of the focal plane of the camera, that is, right in front of the photographic film or image sensor. Two-curtain shutters ...
, in optical systems *
Forties pipeline system The Forties pipeline system (FPS) is a major pipeline transport network in the North Sea. It is owned and operated by Ineos and carries 30% of the UK's oil, or about of oil per day, to shore. It carries liquids production from 85 fields in the ...
in the North Sea * Frontal protection system, for vehicles * Sn-glycerol-3-phosphate 2-alpha-galactosyltransferase, also known as floridoside-phosphate synthase


Sport

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FPS (ice hockey) FPS (full name: Forssan Palloseura) is a Finnish ice hockey team based in Forssa Ice Hall (capacity 3000), Forssa, established in 1931. Forssan Palloseura has two lower level teams: FoPS which plays in lower divisions and FoPS Flames which plays ...
, a Finnish ice hockey team * Frames per stop, a bowling industry term


Other uses

* Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia *
Finchley Progressive Synagogue Finchley Progressive Synagogue (FPS) is a Liberal Judaism congregation in North Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet. The Rabbi is Rebecca Birk. Synagogue membership is around 350 families. History Finchley Liberal Jewish Congregation was ...


See also

* FP (disambiguation) {{disambiguation