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FICO Score
The FICO Score is a credit score from 300 to 850, produced by Fair Isaac Corporation and used by 90% of top US lenders since 1989.
Ficoroni Cista
The Ficoroni Cista is an engraved bronze toiletries box made between 350 and 330 BC, found at Praeneste in 1738 and now in Rome's Villa Giulia museum.
Fiction
Fiction: invented narrative in prose, verse, film, or other media, contrasted with nonfiction by pragmatic rather than semantic criteria; covers Searle's, Currie's, and Walton's theories, world fiction history, and AI-era fiction generation.
Fiction House
Fiction House was an American pulp magazine and comic book publisher (1921–1950s), founded by Glenister and Kelly, revived by Thurman T. Scott, and known for Jumbo Comics, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, Planet Comics, and hiring more women cartoonists than any rival during World War II.
Fiction Monthly
Fiction Monthly (Xiaoshuo yuebao) was a Chinese literary journal published in Shanghai from 1910 to 1931 by the Commercial Press, becoming a leading organ of the new literature movement.
Fictional language
Fictional languages are constructed languages (conlangs) made for fictional speakers, such as Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin, Klingon, Dothraki, and High Valyrian; several have real grammars, dictionaries, and speaker communities.
Fictional universe
Fictional universe: a coherent fictional setting with its own continuity; when multiple authors or media share it, it becomes a shared universe or shared world governed by a "bible", from Mugby Junction (1866) to Star Wars and Marvel.
Fictional universe of Avatar
Fictional universe of Avatar: the fantasy setting of Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, with four nations, elemental bending, the Avatar, the Spirit World, spirit portals, and expanding franchise media.
Fictional universe of Harry Potter
Fictional universe of Harry Potter, also called the Wizarding World: J.K. Rowling's hidden magical society parallel to the Muggle world, governed by the 1692 Statute of Secrecy, spanning the 1926-1998 timeline, seven novels, films, and adaptations.
Fictional veterinarians as a cultural phenomenon
Fictional veterinarians are a recurring figure in novels, films, and television, usually shown as competent and empathetic, though portrayals lag the real profession's shift toward women and small-animal practice.
FictionBook
FictionBook (FB2) is an open, XML-based e-book format that stores a book as a single XML document, originating in the Russian online library community around 2002.
Fictitious domain method
The fictitious domain method is a numerical technique for solving partial differential equations on irregular or moving domains by embedding them in a larger, simply shaped one.
Fictitious entry
Fictitious entry (Nihilartikel, Mountweazel): a deliberately fake word, person, or place inserted in dictionaries, encyclopedias, or maps as a copyright trap to catch copiers; examples include esquivalience, zzxjoanw, and LLM-training traps.
Fictitious force
A fictitious force, also called a pseudo force or inertial force, is an apparent force introduced in accelerating reference frames so Newton's laws can be used there.
Fictitious play
Fictitious play is an iterative game-theory process in which each player best-responds to opponents' past play frequencies, used to model learning and compute Nash equilibria.
Ficulea
Ficulea (Ficolea, Ficulnea), an ancient Latin town of Latium Vetus on the Via Nomentana between Rome and Nomentum near Fidenae; taken by Tarquinius Priscus, linked to the Poplifugia, attested to the early fifth century AD.
Ficus
Ficus (figs), genus Tourn. ex L. in Moraceae, pantropical trees and hemi-epiphytes with syconium inflorescences pollinated by specific Agaonidae wasps; 892 accepted species per Kew POWO; includes edible Ficus carica and strangler figs.
Ficus auriculata
木瓜榕 (Ficus auriculata), also called 大果榕 or Roxburgh fig, is a small evergreen fig tree of southern China and neighboring Asia whose sweet figs cluster directly on the trunk.
Ficus benghalensis
Ficus benghalensis, the banyan or Indian banyan (national tree of India), is a huge evergreen fig of the Indian subcontinent whose aerial roots become secondary trunks; it starts as a strangler epiphyte and is pollinated by species-specific fig wasps.
Ficus benjamina
Ficus benjamina, the weeping fig (垂叶榕), is an evergreen Moraceae tree native to tropical and subtropical Asia and northern Australia, widely grown indoors and outdoors; known for leaf drop, irritant sap, and Least Concern status.
Ficus elastica
Ficus elastica (rubber plant, India rubber fig), a Moraceae tree native from Nepal to western Malesia; once a rubber source, now a common houseplant, IUCN Least Concern, 2n=26.
Ficus lyrata
Ficus lyrata (fiddle-leaf fig, banjo fig) is a hemiepiphytic Moraceae tree native to west and west-central tropical Africa, a Least Concern species grown as a large-leaved landscape tree and popular but fussy houseplant.
Ficus microcarpa
Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan, Indian laurel) is a hemiepiphytic fig tree native from tropical Asia to the western Pacific, pollinated by the wasp Parapristina verticillata, widely planted as an ornamental and bonsai, and a Category I invasive in Florida after its pollinator was introduced.
Ficus racemosa
Ficus racemosa, commonly called the cluster fig or gular, is a large fig tree native from Pakistan to northern Australia and pollinated by the fig wasp Ceratosolen fusciceps.
Ficus religiosa
Ficus religiosa, the sacred fig or aśvattha (peepal, bodhi tree), is a Moraceae strangler fig up to 30 m native to India to southern China, pollinated by Platyscapa quadraticeps, sacred in Hinduism and Buddhism, with the 288 BC Sri Maha Bodhi as the oldest dated plant.
Ficus sycomorus
Ficus sycomorus (sycamore fig, Egyptian sycamore), Moraceae, a large African riverine fig tree pollinated by Ceratosolen arabicus; seedless and human-propagated in Egypt and the Middle East; sacred in ancient Egypt; IUCN Least Concern.
Fida (फ़िदा)
Fida (फ़िदा), 2004 Hindi romantic thriller directed by Ken Ghosh; Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Fardeen Khan; bank-hacking con plot, 20 Aug 2004 release, Tips Films, 16.21 crore worldwide gross.
Fidaa (ఫిదా)
Fidaa (ఫిదా) is a 2017 Telugu romantic comedy-drama directed by Sekhar Kammula, starring Varun Tej and Sai Pallavi in her Telugu debut as lovers from different worlds; a Dil Raju production released 21 July 2017 that became a blockbuster and popularized the Telangana dialect.
Fidais of Alamut
The fidais of Alamut (فدائيان الموت) were the self-sacrificing operatives of the Nizari Ismaili state, founded by Hasan Sabbah at Alamut in 1090, whose killings ended with the Mongol conquest in 1256.
Fidais of the Nizaris
The fidais (فدائیان) were the self-sacrificing devotees of the Nizari Ismailis who carried out targeted killings of prominent enemies from 1090 until the Mongol conquest ended the Alamut state in 1256.