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FedEx Express Flight 087
FedEx Express Flight 087 was a cargo flight from Shanghai that overran the runway at Subic Bay, Philippines, on October 17, 1999, ending in the bay; both crew survived.
FedEx Express Flight 80
FedEx Express Flight 80 was a cargo flight whose MD-11 crashed while landing at Narita International Airport in strong winds on March 23, 2009, killing both crew members.
FedEx Freight
FedEx Freight is a North American less-than-truckload freight carrier headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that transports heavy and bulky shipments; FedEx spun it off as an independent, publicly traded company in 2026.
FedExForum
FedExForum, downtown Memphis arena at 191 Beale Street opened September 2004, home of the NBA Memphis Grizzlies and University of Memphis Tigers basketball, replaced the Pyramid Arena.
Fedez
Fedez (Federico Leonardo Lucia, born 1989 in Milan) is an Italian rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, and TV personality; albums include Sig. Brainwash, Comunisti col Rolex with J-Ax, and Disumano, with Sanremo entries in 2021, 2025, and 2026.
Fediverse
The Fediverse is a network of decentralized social media platforms whose independent servers, called instances, exchange content over shared open protocols like ActivityPub, letting users on one server follow users on another without a central company.
Fédon's Rebellion
Fédon's Rebellion was an uprising against British rule in Grenada begun in March 1795 by Julien Fédon, a free colored planter, and crushed by British forces in June 1796.
Fedor Bogomolov
Fedor Bogomolov (Фёдор Алексеевич Богомолов), born 1946 in Moscow, is a mathematician in algebraic geometry and number theory, professor at New York University's Courant Institute since 1994.
Fedor den Hertog
Fedor den Hertog (1946–2011) was a Dutch road cyclist who won Olympic gold in the 100 km team time trial at the 1968 Mexico City Games.
Fedor Emelianenko (Фёдор Владимирович Емельяненко)
Fedor Emelianenko (Фёдор Емельяненко), known as "The Last Emperor," is a Russian retired mixed martial artist who held PRIDE and RINGS heavyweight titles and fought from 2000 to 2023.
Fedor Jelezko
Fedor Jelezko, born 1971, is a German physicist and professor at Ulm University known for quantum control of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond as nanoscale sensors.
FEDOR program
FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) is a Russian anthropomorphic robot built by NPO Android Technics; its flight version, Skybot F-850, flew uncrewed to the International Space Station in 2019.
Fedor von Bock
Fedor von Bock (1880–1945), German Generalfeldmarschall; commanded Army Group North in Poland, Army Group B in France 1940, Army Group Center at Moscow 1941, and Army Group South 1942; twice dismissed by Hitler; died in a British air attack in May 1945.
Fedora
Fedora: soft felt hat with creased, pinched crown and snap brim, named after Sardou's 1882 play Fédora; dominant men's hat from the 1880s to the 1960s, distinct from the trilby and homburg.
Fedora Linux
Fedora Linux is a community-run Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat, releasing new versions every six months and serving as the upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Fedorchuk's army
Fedorchuk's army (Федорчукова рать) was a punitive Horde campaign sent by Khan Uzbek against the Tver principality in the winter of 1327–1328, joined by Ivan Kalita of Moscow.
Fedorov Avtomat
The Fedorov Avtomat (Автомат Фёдорова) was a Russian select-fire rifle chambered for the Japanese 6.5 mm Arisaka cartridge, adopted in 1916 and regarded as the first assault-rifle-class weapon.
Fedorovskoye Oil and Gas Field
Fedorovskoye is a giant oil and gas condensate field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1971, with about 1.5 billion tonnes of recoverable oil.
Fedoskino miniature
Fedoskino miniature is a Russian craft of lacquer miniature painting in oil on papier-mâché, begun near Moscow in 1795, the oldest of the four Russian lacquer centers.
Fedot Alekseev
Fedot Alekseev (Федот Алексеев), also known as Fedot Alekseevich Popov, was a Russian explorer from Kholmogory who co-led the 1648 voyage through the Bering Strait.
FedRAMP
FedRAMP, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, is a US government-wide program for standardized security assessment and authorization of federal cloud services, run by the GSA since 2011.
Fedratinib
Fedratinib, sold as Inrebic, is an oral kinase inhibitor targeting JAK2, approved by the FDA in August 2019 for adults with intermediate-2 or high-risk myelofibrosis.
Fee Schedules
A fee schedule is a listing of established charges for professional services that a payer uses to set reimbursement in Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance.
Fee simple
Fee simple: the greatest property interest in land, of unlimited duration, held absolutely or in three defeasible forms (determinable, condition subsequent, executory limitation) with correlative future interests.
Fee tail
Fee tail: a common law entailed estate in land created by wording like 'to A and the heirs of his body', originating in the Statute De Donis Conditionalibus (1285). It locked inheritance to lineal descendants; barred by the common recovery and now abolished or converted to fee simple in most US states and England.
Fee-fi-fo-fum
Fee-fi-fo-fum, also spelled fee-faw-fum, is the giant's nonsense chant from Jack and the Beanstalk; first printed in Peele's 1595 Old Wives' Tale, used by Nashe and Shakespeare, with no established meaning.
Fee-for-Service Plans
Fee-for-service plans pay providers per individual service delivered; the term covers indemnity health insurance and Medicare Advantage Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans, which offer broad provider choice without prior authorization.
Feeble-minded
Feeble-minded: obsolete legal and medical term (mid-1800s to mid-1900s) for someone judged mentally impaired; Goddard defined it as IQ below 70, tied it to eugenics, sterilization, and the Kallikak study, now replaced by intellectual disability.
Feed (Facebook)
The Feed, originally called News Feed, is Facebook's personalized stream of updates ordered by a machine-learning ranking system rather than chronologically; launched in 2006, it sparked a user backlash.
Feed forward (control)
Feedforward control is a control strategy that acts on a measurement of a disturbance to counteract it before the output is affected, typically combined with PID feedback control.