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Arts and media

* F♭ (musical note) * FB (band), an electronic music collaboration of Benny Benassi and Ferry Corsten *
Facebook Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...
, a social networking website, also known as FB.com **
Meta Platforms Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Meta owns and operates several prominent social media platforms and communication services, including Facebook, Instagram, Threads ...
, formerly Facebook Inc (Nasdaq: FB), parent company of Facebook * Friendship book, a booklet swapped amongst pen pals *
Frostbite (game engine) Frostbite is a game engine developed by DICE (company), DICE, designed for cross-platform use on Microsoft Windows, Seventh generation of video game consoles, seventh generation game consoles PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Eighth generation of video ...
, a video game engine * FB, known as Trucksy in the US, an old green pickup truck from '' Roary the Racing Car''


Science and technology


Computing

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Framebuffer A framebuffer (frame buffer, or sometimes framestore) is a portion of random-access memory (RAM) containing a bitmap that drives a video display. It is a memory buffer containing data representing all the pixels in a complete video frame. Mode ...
, in computer technology *
FreeBASIC FreeBASIC is a FOSS, free and open source multiplatform compiler and programming language based on BASIC licensed under the GNU General Public License, GNU GPL for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode MS-DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox ...
, a 32-bit compiler using BASIC syntax for DOS, Windows, and Linux * FictionBook, an open XML-based e-book format hailing from Russia


Other uses in science and technology

* F B swamp vehicle, a Japanese military vehicle used for crossing difficult swampy terrain * Fast busy, or reorder tone, a type of telephone signal *
Feedback Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause and effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to ''feed back'' into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handle ...
, in signaling systems * Femtobarn, a small unit of area used in high energy physics * Fluidized bed, a special technology used in energy, reactor, chemical engineering etc. * Ninth generation
Honda Civic The is a series of automobiles manufactured by Honda since 1972. , the Civic is positioned between the Honda Fit/Honda City, City and Honda Accord in Honda's global passenger car line-up. The first-generation Civic was introduced in July 1972 ...
* Hyundai FB, a series of buses manufactured by Hyundai Motor Company *
Foreign body A foreign body (FB) is any object originating outside the body of an organism. In machinery, it can mean any unwanted intruding object. Most references to foreign bodies involve propulsion through natural orifices into hollow organs. Foreign b ...
, any object originating outside the body


Sport

* Fenerbahçe, a Turkish sports club * Fly ball, a type of
batted ball In the sports of baseball and softball, a batted ball is a Pitch (baseball), pitch that has been contacted by the batter's bat. Batted balls are either fair ball, fair or foul ball, foul, and can be characterized as a fly ball, pop-up, line driv ...
or a pitching stat in baseball *
Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
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Fullback (American football) A fullback (FB) is a position in the offense (sports), offensive backfield in gridiron football and is one of the two running back positions along with the halfback (American football), halfback. Fullbacks are typically larger than halfbacks, and ...
, a position in American football *
Full-back (association football) In the sport of association football, a defender is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categ ...
, a position in association football


Other uses

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Bulgaria Air Bulgaria Air () is the flag carrier airline of Bulgaria, with its headquarters at Vasil Levski Sofia Airport in Sofia. The company is owned by Chimimport AD and is a leader in terms of local market share. The airline operates short and medium ha ...
(Bulgarian: България еър, IATA code FB), the flag carrier airline of Bulgaria * Firebase or
Fire support base A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps. FSBs fol ...
, an artillery encampment *
Footbridge A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians.''Oxford English Dictionary'' While the primary meaning for a bridge is a structure which links "two points at a ...
(fb on some maps), a bridge designed for pedestrians * Fremont Bank, a US based retail and commercial bank * FB "Łucznik" Radom, a Polish defence industry enterprise from Radom that produces firearms


See also

* * BF (disambiguation) {{disambiguation