FR or fr may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

* '' Frankfurter Rundschau'', a German newspaper * Ryanair (IATA airline code)

Places

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

, by ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 and NATO code ** French language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "fr") **

Franc The franc is any of various units of currency. One franc is typically divided into 100 centimes. The name is said to derive from the Latin inscription ''francorum rex'' (King of the Franks) used on early French coins and until the 18th centu ...

, a unit of currency **

.fr .fr is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France. It is administered by AFNIC. The domain includes all individuals and organizations registered at the Association française pour le ...

, the country code Top Level Domain (Most Important) for France *

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

, Germany (vehicle registration code FR) *

Freistadt Freistadt (, literally "Freetown") is a small Austrian town in the state of Upper Austria in the region Mühlviertel. With a population of approximately 7,500 residents, it is a trade centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of ...

, Austria (vehicle registration code FR) *

Frontier Regions The Frontier Regions (often abbreviated as FR) of Pakistan were a group of small administrative units in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), lying immediately to the east of the seven main tribal agencies and west of the settled distr ...

, a group of small administrative units in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan *

Province of Frosinone The Province of Frosinone ( it, Provincia di Frosinone) is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 ''comuni'' (singular: ''comune''; see Comuni of the Province of Frosinone). Its capital is the city of Frosinone. It has an area of ...

, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT code FR) * Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland (ISO 3166-2:CH code FR)

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

French catheter scale The French scale, French gauge or Charrière system is commonly used to measure the size of a catheter. It is most often abbreviated as Fr, but can often be seen abbreviated as Fg, FR or F. It may also be abbreviated as CH or Ch (for Charrière, i ...

, a scale for medical catheters * Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878), Swedish mycologist and botanist; author abbreviation Fr.

Computing

, the country code Top Level Domain (Most Important) for France *

Fujitsu FR The Fujitsu FR (Fujitsu RISC) is a 32-bit RISC processor family. New variants include a floating point unit and partly video input analog-to-digital converter and digital signal processor. It is supported by Softune, GNU Compiler Collection a ...

(Fujitsu RISC), a microprocessor * Product code used by

Farbrausch Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers who became well known in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64k intro called "fr-08: .the .product". The demo achieved its small size through the use of procedural textures, a custom MI ...

, e.g. fr-019 *

Full Rate Full Rate (FR or GSM-FR or GSM 06.10 or sometimes simply GSM) was the first digital speech coding standard used in the GSM digital mobile phone system. It uses linear predictive coding (LPC). The bit rate of the codec is 13 kbit/s, or 1.625 bits ...

, a speech coding standard used in GSM * CSS flex unit

Other uses in science and technology

Ryan FR Fireball The Ryan FR Fireball was an American mixed-power (piston and jet-powered) fighter aircraft designed by Ryan Aeronautical for the United States Navy during World War II. It was the Navy's first aircraft with a jet engine. Only 66 aircraft were b ...

, a mixed-power US Navy fighter aircraft *

Flame retardant The term flame retardants subsumes a diverse group of chemicals that are added to manufactured materials, such as plastics and textiles, and surface finishes and coatings. Flame retardants are activated by the presence of an ignition source and ...

* Flash release, a technique used in wine pressing * Francium, symbol Fr, a chemical element *

Franklin (unit) The franklin (Fr) or statcoulomb (statC) electrostatic unit of charge (esu) is the physical unit for electrical charge used in the cgs-esu and Gaussian units. It is a derived unit given by : 1 statC = 1 dyn1/2⋅cm = 1 cm3/2⋅g1/2⋅s−1. That ...

, unit of electrical charge *

Front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout In automotive design, a FR, or front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout is one where the Internal combustion engine, engine is Front-engine design, located at the front of the vehicle and rear-wheel-drive, driven wheels are located at the rear via a ...

of an automobile design * Froude number, in physics

Other uses

Friday Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. In countries that adopt the traditional "Sunday-first" convention, it is the sixth day of the week. In countries adopting the ISO-defined "Monday-first" convention, it is the fifth d ...

, the 6th day of week * Father (title), a title for a Catholic clergyman, especially a priest * Frater (Fr.), in Roman Catholicism, a

monk A monk (, from el, μοναχός, ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a person who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decides to dedica ...

who is not a priest * Fr., a title by male members of organisations such as AMORC * Fasch Repertorium, a catalogue of the works of the Baroque composer Johann Friedrich Fasch * Federal Register, a US government official journal * Ffestiniog Railway, a tourist attraction in Gwynedd, Wales * Formula Renault, a racing class * Formula Regional (disambiguation) *

, a unit of currency * French language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code "fr") *

Furness Railway The Furness Railway (Furness) was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England. History Formation In the early 1840s, the owners of iron ore mines in the Furness district of Lancashire became interested i ...

, an early British railway company