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Filippo Pilotta
Filippo Pilotta (born 1978) is an Italian independent researcher, a metalworker and physics autodidact, author of the self-published cosmology framework Synchronia Mundi – Relatività Comune.
Filippo Radicchi
Filippo Radicchi, born in Rome in 1978, is an Italian-born network scientist and Professor of Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, known for his 2008 community detection benchmark.
Filippo Sega
Filippo Sega (1537–1596) was an Italian prelate and papal diplomat, bishop of Piacenza from 1578, nuncio in Spain and Austria, and papal legate in France before becoming a cardinal in 1591.
Filippo Sorcinelli
Filippo Sorcinelli (born 1975, Mondolfo) is an Italian artist, organist, and perfumer; founder of the LAVS atelier in Santarcangelo di Romagna, he has made vestments for popes Benedict XVI, Francis, and Leo XIV, and launched the UNUM fragrance line in 2014.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), Italian poet born in Alexandria, Egypt, founded Futurism with his 1909 Manifesto published in Le Figaro; created parole in liberta, led the Futurist Party, and allied with Mussolini's fascism.
Filitelnic Gas Field
The Filitelnic Gas Field is a natural gas field at Filitelnic village in Mureș County, Romania, operated by Romgaz and the largest field in its portfolio.
Filitosa
Filitosa, prehistoric site at Sollacaro, Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, in the Taravo valley; discovered 1946 by Charles-Antoine Cesari, excavated by Roger Grosjean from 1954; famed for granite statue-menhirs reworked around 1200 BC, classified Monument historique 1967 and 1980.
Filiz Akın
Filiz Akın (born Suna Filiz Akın, 1943–2025) was a Turkish film actress who starred in 119 Yeşilçam films from 1962 to 1975, one of the era's four most iconic actresses.
Filk music
Filk music, the folk music of science fiction and fantasy fandom, began as a 1950s typo for "folk"; fans perform it in bardic and chaos song circles at dedicated conventions worldwide.
Filko
Filko (Filicău, also spelled Flăcău) is a Romanian trick-taking card game for four players in fixed partnerships, probably originating in Transylvania, played with the 32-card William Tell pack.
Fill (company)
Fill Gesellschaft m.b.H. is an Austrian special machine and plant engineering company in Gurten, Upper Austria, founded by Josef Fill in 1966 and still family-owned.
Fill A Pix
Fill-a-Pix, also called Mosaic or Nurie, is a picture-forming logic puzzle invented by Trevor Truran and developed by Conceptis: each clue counts filled cells in its 3×3 neighborhood including itself, revealing pixel art; launched by Conceptis February 1, 2003; NP-complete in general.
Fill power
Fill power is a laboratory measure of the loft, or insulating capacity, of down: the volume in cubic inches one ounce occupies, typically ranging from about 300 to 900.
Fill-in-the-middle (code models)
Fill-in-the-middle (FIM) is a training technique, introduced by OpenAI in 2022, that lets code language models complete code at the cursor using both surrounding context.
Filled skutterudite
A filled skutterudite is a thermoelectric material in which guest atoms fill the voids of the CoSb₃ crystal structure, suppressing heat conduction while keeping electrical conduction intact.
Filled skutterudite thermoelectric modules
Filled skutterudite thermoelectric modules are solid-state generators whose legs are filled cobalt antimonide, converting hot waste heat like automotive exhaust into electricity at 7 to 12% efficiency.
Filler episode
Filler episode: an installment in a serial TV work, especially anime, that contributes little to the governing plot arc; also anime-original material absent from the source manga, created to let the manga stay ahead.
Fillet weld
A fillet weld is a weld of approximately triangular cross-section joining two surfaces at an angle, used to connect plates and structural members in steel structures like buildings and bridges.
Filling station
A filling station, also called a gas station or petrol station, is a facility that sells fuel for motor vehicles from pumps, usually with a small retail store.
Fillmore!
Fillmore! (Disney's Fillmore!), Disney animated police-procedural parody created by Scott M. Gimple, airing 2002–2004 on ABC Kids: 26 episodes following reformed delinquent Cornelius Fillmore of X Middle School's Safety Patrol, voiced by Orlando Brown.
Fillomino
Fillomino (フィルオミノ, also Allied Occupation) is a Nikoli logic puzzle from 1994: fill a grid so each connected region of equal numbers has exactly that many cells, with no same-size regions touching; NP-complete.
Film
Film: a series of still images shown in rapid succession to create motion, also called motion pictures or movies. Covers its photochemical medium, history from the 1890s, industry economics, and preservation.
Film (group)
Film was a Yugoslav and later Croatian new wave band from Zagreb, formed in 1979 and led by singer and songwriter Jura Stublić; after 1985 it performed as Jura Stublić i Film.
Film adaptation
Film adaptation: transferring a literary, dramatic, or other narrative into cinematic form. Key topics are the fidelity debate, Wagner's transposition-commentary-analogy typology, pre-sold properties, and streaming-era demand for IP adaptations.
Film and Television Institute of India
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune: government film school founded 1960 on former Prabhat Studios grounds, renamed 1971 with TV Wing, deemed university since April 2025, known for JET admissions and its alumni.
Film archive
A film archive is an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to moving images, and often sound and broadcast material, valued as art, cultural records, and historical documents.
Film badge dosimeter
The film badge dosimeter, or film badge, is a personal radiation monitor of photographic film in a filtered plastic holder, worn by workers to measure external ionizing radiation exposure.
Film boiling
Film boiling is a boiling regime in which a continuous vapor film separates the heated surface from the liquid, insulating it so heat passes mainly by conduction and radiation.
Film bulk acoustic resonator
A film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) is a radio-frequency filter in which a suspended piezoelectric film vibrates at gigahertz frequencies, used in mobile phone front ends.
Film capacitor
A film capacitor, also called a plastic film or polymer film capacitor, is a fixed capacitor that uses thin plastic film as its dielectric and can self-heal after breakdown.