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Fine art
Fine art (beaux-arts): visual art, chiefly painting, drawing, and sculpture, made for beauty rather than use; a category systematized in 18th-century Europe and described in Kristeller's modern system of the arts.
Fine Art (Kneecap album)
Fine Art, debut studio album by Belfast Irish-language rap trio Kneecap (Móglaí Bap, Mo Chara, DJ Próvaí), released 14 June 2024 on Heavenly Recordings, produced by Toddla T, a bilingual Irish-English concept album set in a fictional pub.
Fine Gael
Fine Gael, early on the United Ireland Party, is a center-right Irish political party formed in 1933 from a merger of three groups and led since 2024 by Simon Harris.
Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph
The Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS) is a Canadian Space Agency instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope that guides pointing and performs near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy.
Fine Motion
Fine Motion (ファインモーション), Irish-bred mare foaled 1999 by Danehill out of Cocotte, raced in Japan; won 2002 Shuka Sho and Queen Elizabeth II Cup, six straight wins to start, 8 of 15 starts; infertile, pensioned at Fushikida Farm.
Fine motor skill
Fine motor skill: coordination of small muscles, bones, and nerves for small, precise hand movements such as pincer grasp and handwriting; also called manual dexterity. Covers corticospinal, cerebellar, and basal ganglia control, pegboard normative scores, developmental milestones, and stroke rehabilitation robotics.
Fine particulate organic matter
Fine particulate organic matter (FPOM) is the organic fraction of particles between 0.45 and 1000 μm in streams and rivers, and a key food for collector invertebrates.
Fine structure
Fine structure is the splitting of otherwise degenerate atomic energy levels caused by relativistic and spin-dependent corrections, of order α² times the Bohr energy in hydrogen and visible as closely spaced spectral-line components.
Fine Young Cannibals
Fine Young Cannibals (FYC), English pop-soul trio formed in Birmingham in 1984 by ex-Beat members Andy Cox and David Steele with singer Roland Gift; 1989's The Raw & the Cooked hit No. 1 in the UK and US, yielding Billboard No. 1s She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing.
Fine-grained complexity
Fine-grained complexity is the area of theoretical computer science that proves conditional lower bounds based on the Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis (SETH) and similar conjectures such as 3-SUM and APSP.
Fine-mapping
Fine-mapping is a statistical genetics method that narrows a genome-wide association study signal to candidate causal variants, using association statistics and linkage disequilibrium rather than new experiments.
Fine-needle aspiration
Fine-needle aspiration (FNA, FNAC): minimally invasive biopsy using a thin (22-gauge or smaller) needle to sample cells from a mass for microscopic diagnosis; pioneered at Memorial Hospital in the 1920s-1930s and revived by the Swedish Karolinska school.
Fine-structure constant
The fine-structure constant, also called Sommerfeld's constant, is a dimensionless constant of about 1/137 measuring the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, introduced by Arnold Sommerfeld in 1916.
Fine-tuned universe
The fine-tuned universe is the claim in physics and philosophy that life depends sensitively on the constants of nature; small changes would have prevented life from arising.
Fine-tuning (deep learning)
Fine-tuning is the process of continuing the training of a pretrained machine learning model on task-specific data, including methods like LoRA that update only a small fraction of parameters.
Fine–Gray model
The Fine–Gray model is a semiparametric proportional hazards regression model for the subdistribution hazard of a competing risk, proposed by Jason P. Fine and Robert J. Gray in 1999 and widely used as competing risks regression.
Fine, Totally Fine (全然大丈夫)
Fine, Totally Fine (全然大丈夫, Zenzen daijobu) is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama, Yosuke Fujita's feature debut, about two men nearing 30 who fall for a clumsy artist; it won the Nippon Cinema Award.
FINEARTS-HF trial
FINEARTS-HF (NCT04435626): Bayer-funded randomized trial of finerenone, a nonsteroidal MRA, in 6,001 patients with heart failure and LVEF ≥40%; reduced total worsening HF events and CV death (RR 0.84).
FinecoBank
FinecoBank (Banca Fineco S.p.A.) is an Italian bank and brokerage that combines banking, trading, and investment services in one account, listed on the FTSE MIB.
Finegoldia magna
Finegoldia magna, formerly Peptostreptococcus magnus and Peptococcus magnus, is an anaerobic Gram-positive coccus of human skin and mucosal flora, the most pathogenic Gram-positive anaerobic coccus, causing soft-tissue, bone, joint, and prosthetic infections.
Finem
Finem is the stage name of Klejdi Dogjani (born 1998, Tirana), an Albanian trap and hip-hop rapper active since 2019, known for "Benzi", "Lutem", "ESCOBAR", and the Paky collaboration "Tirana"; distinct from the Spanish metal band Finem Vitae.
Fineness
Fineness is the content of a precious metal in an alloy, expressed in parts per thousand by mass, the standard measure for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium purity.
Finerenone
Finerenone (Kerendia), a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist approved in 2021 for diabetic CKD and in July 2025 for heart failure with LVEF ≥40%, based on FIDELIO-DKD, FIGARO-DKD, and FINEARTS-HF trials.
Finerge
Finerge is a Portuguese renewable energy producer, founded in 1996, that operates wind and solar plants across Portugal and Spain and describes itself as the country's largest wind producer.
Fines (France)
Fines (Ad Fines), Latin "at the border", names several Roman road stations and boundary markers in France, including the 74 AD Cordon milestone between Ceutrons and Allobroges and stations at Manheules and in the Oisans.
Fines Africae et Cyrenensium
Fines Africae et Cyrenensium (Arae Philaenorum, Altars of the Philaeni) was the Carthaginian-Cyrenaican frontier at the Greater Syrtis, modern Ras al-A'ali, Libya, later the Africa-Cyrenaica provincial boundary, shown on the Peutinger Map.
Finesse
A finesse in contract bridge is an attempt to win a trick with a card that might lose, by leading toward it and hoping the beating honor has already played.
FineWeb
FineWeb is an open English-language pretraining corpus built by Hugging Face from 96 Common Crawl snapshots, released in May 2024 at 15 trillion tokens and later expanded past 18.5 trillion.
FinFET
A FinFET is a field-effect transistor with a gate wrapped around a thin vertical silicon fin, suppressing leakage and dominant at 14 nm, 10 nm, and 7 nm nodes.
Fing!
Fing! is a 2025 Australian-British family fantasy film directed by Jeffrey Walker, adapted from David Walliams' 2019 children's book Fing, starring Taika Waititi, Mia Wasikowska, and Iona Bell; it premiered at Sundance 2026 and opens in US theaters January 15, 2027 via Angel Studios.