FAP may refer to:

Technology and industry

* FORTRAN Assembly Program, the macro assembler for some IBM mainframe computers *

Fair Access Policy A data cap, often erroneously referred to as a bandwidth cap, is an artificial restriction imposed on the transfer of data over a network. In particular, it refers to policies imposed by an internet service provider in order to limit customers' ...

, a term for a bandwidth cap, limiting Internet usage * Femtocell (Femto Access Point), a small cellular telephone base station * Fabrika automobila Priboj, a motor vehicle manufacturer based in Priboj, Serbia * Diesel particulate filter (French, ''filtre à particules''), a filter for motor exhaust gas * Film Academy of the Philippines, 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 humanoid ...

, 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 continge ...

, clinical psychotherapy that uses a "radical behaviorist" position * Familial adenomatous polyposis, a condition where polyps form in the large intestine * Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, a neurodegenerative, genetically transmitted disease * Fixed action pattern, 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 su ...

, a human gene, encoding for the fibroblast activation protein * Fas-associated phosphatase, 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) (''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 The U.S. federal-aid highway program was commenced in 1916, with milestones of Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. The federal-aid highway system consists of three parts: *The Interstate Highway System (FAI route ...

* Federal Art Project, 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 (''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 (''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, an art program for women only * Fapping, a slang term for masturbation {{disambig