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Fittrat
Fittrat is an Indian romantic drama web series created by Ekta Kapoor for ALTBalaji and ZEE5, streaming from 18 October 2019, starring Krystle D'Souza as gold-digger Tarini Bisht, with Aditya Seal and Anushka Ranjan; distinct from the Pakistani Geo TV drama Fitrat.
Fitts's law
Fitts's law is a model of rapid aimed movement, introduced by Paul M. Fitts in 1954, in which movement time is a linear function of movement amplitude and target width.
Fitusiran
Fitusiran (Qfitlia), an antithrombin-lowering siRNA by Sanofi/Alnylam, FDA-approved March 28, 2025 for bleeding prophylaxis in hemophilia A or B with or without inhibitors, dosed subcutaneously every two months.
Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane, born Nathaniel Rogers Lane and long known as Fitz Hugh Lane, was an American marine painter and printmaker from Gloucester, Massachusetts, celebrated for luminous harbor scenes in the Luminist style.
Fitz Roy
Fitz Roy, also called Cerro Chaltén, is a 3,405 m granite peak in Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina, first climbed in 1952 by Terray and Magnone and famed for hard Patagonian routes.
Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome
Fitz-Hugh–Curtis syndrome, or perihepatitis, is inflammation of the liver capsule from pelvic inflammatory disease, causing right upper quadrant pain and violin-string adhesions; mainly caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, affecting 4–14% of females with PID.
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog's 1982 West German-Peruvian drama, stars Klaus Kinski as an opera lover hauling a 320-ton steamship over an Amazon mountain; won Cannes Best Director 1982, documented in Burden of Dreams.
Fitzgerald (lunar crater)
Fitzgerald is a 104.21-km-diameter impact crater on the far side of the Moon at 26.67°N, 172.14°W, IAU-approved in 1970 and named for Irish physicist George Francis Fitzgerald (1851–1901), with satellite craters B, W, and Y.
FitzGerald (surname)
FitzGerald or Fitzgerald, Irish Mac Gearailt, a Hiberno-Norman patronymic surname meaning "son of Gerald." Arrived with the 1169-70 Anglo-Norman invasion via Maurice FitzGerald; the Geraldine Earls of Kildare and Desmond made it one of Ireland's great names.
Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve
Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve, Western Australia's only UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, designated 1978, renominated 2017; 1.53 million hectares around Fitzgerald River National Park, a southwest Australia biodiversity hotspot with about 2,500 plant species.
Fitzgerald Inquiry
The Fitzgerald Inquiry (1987–1989), formally the Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, led by Tony Fitzgerald QC, exposed systemic Queensland police and political corruption, jailed four ministers and Commissioner Terence Lewis, and produced over 100 reform recommendations.
Fitzgerald River National Park
Fitzgerald River National Park: large national park on Western Australia's south coast, 420 km southeast of Perth, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (1978) and National Heritage place (2016) with about 1,748 plant species including 75 endemics.
FitzHugh–Nagumo model
The FitzHugh–Nagumo model is a simplified two-variable system of differential equations describing excitability in neurons, derived from the four-variable Hodgkin–Huxley model in 1961 and 1962.
Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia is a district in central London, near the West End, split between the boroughs of Camden and Westminster and named in the 1930s after the Fitzroy Tavern.
Fitzroya
Fitzroya (alerce, lahuán, Fitzroya cupressoides) is a monotypic Patagonian cypress genus of Chile and Argentina; an Endangered, CITES-listed conifer living over 3,600 years, reaching 4–5 m diameter, with only 15% of original forest remaining.
Fiume o morte!
Fiume o morte! ("Fiume or Death!") is a 2025 Croatian-Italian-Slovenian documentary by Igor Bezinović in which Rijeka residents re-enact Gabriele D'Annunzio's 1919-1920 occupation of Fiume; Tiger Award winner at Rotterdam and 2026 Oscar submission.
Fiumicino
Fiumicino, coastal comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, at the Tiber mouth; also called Fiumicino-Isola Sacra. Seat of Leonardo da Vinci airport (FCO), Rome's long-haul hub, and of the ancient port of Portus; 83,415 residents (2026).
FIVB Men's Volleyball World Cup
FIVB Men's Volleyball World Cup: from 2027 the renamed FIVB Volleyball World Championship, 32 teams, biennial, men hosted by Poland, Olympic qualifier for LA28; earlier separate World Cup ran 1965-2019.
FIVB Senior World Rankings
FIVB Senior World Rankings: official FIVB world rankings of senior men's and women's national volleyball teams, launched 1 February 2020 on a probabilistic points model covering 222 teams per gender, used for seeding and Olympic qualification.
FIVB Volleyball Boys' U17 World Championship
Biennial FIVB world championship for under-17 boys' national volleyball teams, first held in Sofia 2024 (Italy champions) and won by unbeaten Iran at the 2026 Doha edition.
FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship
FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship, biennial FIVB world tournament for girls' under-17 national volleyball teams since 2024; China won the inaugural Lima 2024 edition and the USA the expanded 24-team 2026 edition in Chile.
FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup
FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup: name of the FIVB men's tournament held 1965-2019 (first edition in Poland, 2023 in Japan) and, from 2027, the renamed Volleyball World Championship, a 32-team event in Poland awarding three LA 2028 Olympic berths.
FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup
FIVB Women's Volleyball World Cup: women's national-team volleyball tournament, first held 1973 in Uruguay, hosted by Japan 1977-2019; from 2027 the renamed World Championship, 32 teams, USA/Canada hosts, LA28 qualifier.
Five (group)
Five (5ive), British boy band from London formed 1997 by the Spice Girls' management team and signed by Simon Cowell. Members J Brown, Abz Love, Scott Robinson, Ritchie Neville, Sean Conlon; 11 UK top 10 singles, three number ones; split 2001, full five-piece reunion announced February 2025.
Five Academies (wuguan)
The Five Academies (五馆) were five academies of classical learning opened in China's Liang dynasty in 505, whose lectures drew over a thousand students and broadened office entry beyond aristocratic families.
Five Ancestors
Five Ancestors Fist (五祖拳, Wuzuquan; Hokkien Goh/Ngo Cho Kun) is a Southern Shaolin martial art from Quanzhou, Fujian, fusing Da Mo, Luohan, Taizu, White Crane, and Monkey traditions; a 2008 Chinese national intangible cultural heritage spread across Southeast Asia.
Five Bedrooms
Five Bedrooms is an Australian comedy-drama series (2019-2023, Network Ten/Paramount+) about five wedding singles-table strangers who buy a Melbourne house together; 32 episodes, four seasons, created by Christine Bartlett and Michael Lucas.
Five Bells
"Five Bells" is a 1939 meditative poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor, an elegy for his friend Joe Lynch, who drowned in Sydney Harbour in 1927.
Five Below
Five Below is an American extreme-value discount retailer headquartered in Philadelphia, selling toys, snacks, fashion, and tech to tweens and teens, with most products priced at $5 and below.
Five by five
Five by five is a radio signal report meaning loud and clear: 5 rates signal strength and 5 rates readability, the best score on both scales.