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Fiat Panda
The Fiat Panda is a small city car produced by Italian manufacturer Fiat since 1980, designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, with over 7.5 million built and a pioneering 4x4 version.
Fiat Punto
The Fiat Punto is a supermini hatchback built by Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1993 to 2018 in three generations, selling more than nine million units over 25 years.
Fiat Ritmo
The Fiat Ritmo is a small family car built by Fiat from 1978 to 1988, sold as the Fiat Strada in the United Kingdom and North America.
Fiat S.p.A.
Fiat S.p.A., founded as Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino in Turin in 1899, was Italy's dominant carmaker until it merged into Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2014.
Fiat Siena
The Fiat Siena is a subcompact sedan Fiat introduced in 1996 as the saloon version of its Palio, built mainly in Brazil and Argentina and produced as the Grand Siena from 2012 to 2021.
Fiat Stilo
The Fiat Stilo is a small family car produced by Fiat from 2001 to 2007, replacing the Bravo and Brava and competing with the Volkswagen Golf.
Fiat Tempra
The Fiat Tempra is a small family car built by Fiat from 1990 to 2002 as a saloon and estate, sharing its platform with the Fiat Tipo.
Fiat Tipo (2015)
The Fiat Tipo, sold as the Fiat Egea in Turkey, is a compact car introduced by Fiat in 2015 and built by Tofaş in Bursa.
Fiat Uno
The Fiat Uno, also known as the Fiat Mille, is a supermini hatchback produced by Fiat from 1983 that won the 1984 European Car of the Year award.
Fiat X1/9
The Fiat X1/9, also known as Icsunonove, is a two-seat mid-engined sports car with a removable targa roof, designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone and sold from 1972 to 1989.
Fiat-Materfer (Buenos Aires Underground)
Fiat-Materfer is a class of electric multiple-unit subway cars built entirely in Argentina for the Buenos Aires Underground, with 105 units produced between 1980 and 1997.
FIBA
FIBA (International Basketball Federation, Fédération Internationale de Basketball) is the world governing body for basketball, founded June 18, 1932 in Geneva by eight federations, with 213 members, headquartered in Mies, Switzerland, author of the Official Basketball Rules.
FIBA AfroBasket 2025
FIBA AfroBasket 2025, the African men's national basketball championship, held 12–24 August 2025 in Angola. Angola beat Mali 70-43 in the final for a record twelfth title; Childe Dundao was MVP.
FIBA Asia Cup
The FIBA Asia Cup, formerly the Asian Basketball Championship and first held in Manila in 1960, is the top men's basketball tournament for national teams across Asia and Oceania.
FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIBA Basketball World Cup, formerly the World Championship: quadrennial men's national team tournament first held 1950 in Buenos Aires; 32 teams; Germany reigning champion; 2027 edition in Doha, Qatar.
FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe, the European basketball federation under FIBA (also FIBA Europe e.V., Munich), governs 50 national federations, runs the FIBA Europe Cup, EuroLeague Women, and EuroCup Women, and sits in the FIBA-EuroLeague dispute.
FIBA Men's World Ranking
FIBA Men's World Ranking, presented by Nike: FIBA's official game-based rating of men's national basketball teams, launched 2017 and revised November 2025 to an accumulative points model with 0.66 pre-event discounts; used for draw seedings.
Fiber
A fiber is a fine, flexible unit of matter, at least 100 times longer than it is wide, that can be spun into yarn or fabric.
Fiber Bragg grating
A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is a periodic refractive index modulation in an optical fiber core that reflects the Bragg wavelength, used in telecommunications and fiber-optic sensing.
Fiber Bragg grating interrogation
Fiber Bragg grating interrogation is the measurement process that tracks the reflected wavelength of a fiber Bragg grating sensor over time and converts shifts into strain or temperature.
Fiber bundle
A fiber bundle is a map between topological spaces that locally looks like a product, describing how a fiber space attaches to a base space.
Fiber cement siding
Fiber cement siding is an exterior cladding made from sand, cement, and cellulose fibers, used on homes and businesses since the 1970s for its fire, rot, and insect resistance.
Fiber coupler
A fiber coupler is a passive optical device that splits, combines, or redirects optical power between fiber ports without electronic conversion, used throughout fiber-optic networks.
Fiber diffraction
Fiber diffraction is an X-ray technique that determines the structure of fibrous or polymeric molecules from oriented bundles, famously yielding the DNA double helix and the α-helix.
Fiber Distributed Data Interface
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) is a 100 Mbit/s local area network standard built on a dual counter-rotating fiber optic token ring, developed by ANSI in the 1980s.
Fiber FISH
Fiber FISH is a cytogenetic technique that hybridizes fluorescent probes to stretched DNA fibers on slides, resolving gene order at roughly 1 kb, far beyond standard FISH.
Fiber laser
A fiber laser is a laser whose gain medium is optical fiber doped with rare-earth ions, typically ytterbium, first demonstrated by Elias Snitzer in 1961 and now widely used for cutting and welding metals.
Fiber nonlinearity mitigation by phase conjugation
Fiber nonlinearity mitigation by phase conjugation, also known as optical phase conjugation or mid-span spectral inversion, reverses a signal's spectrum mid-link so Kerr distortions cancel.
Fiber optic drone
A fiber optic drone is an unmanned aircraft controlled through a thin cable rather than radio, making it immune to jamming; first fielded in the war in Ukraine in 2024.
Fiber optical cavity
A fiber optical cavity is a light resonator built inside optical fiber, using mirrors such as fiber Bragg gratings, coatings, or loops instead of bulk optics.