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Forgotten Joint Score
The Forgotten Joint Score (FJS-12) is a 12-item patient questionnaire measuring how far a patient forgets an artificial joint after hip or knee arthroplasty, scored 0 to 100.
Forgotten Realms
Forgotten Realms, also called the Realms, is Ed Greenwood's fantasy campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons, set on Faerûn, world Abeir-Toril; TSR's 1987 Campaign Set made it D&D's default setting.
Forhad Hussain
Forhad Hussain is a British Labour politician of Bangladeshi origin who was elected Mayor of Newham, a London borough, in 2026, the first mayor there of Bangladeshi descent.
Forigerimod
Forigerimod (P140, Lupuzor, IPP-201101) is a 21-mer phosphopeptide from U1-70K snRNP that binds HSC70/HSPA8 to treat lupus; Phase IIb positive, Phase III missed its endpoint, CIDP in development.
FORJA
FORJA (Fuerza de Orientación Radical de la Joven Argentina) was an Argentine political group founded in 1935 by dissident Radical Party members, known for nationalist anti-imperialism.
Fork
The fork is a tined eating utensil, also called a table fork. Last of the Western cutlery trio to reach the table: kitchen tool in antiquity, Byzantine court novelty, condemned by clergy, spread via Catherine de' Medici in 1533, four-tined by late 17th-century France, standard by the 19th century.
Fork (software development)
A fork, or software fork, is a copy of an existing code base developed separately from the original project, either to propose changes back or to start an independent line.
Fork bomb
A fork bomb, also known as a Rabbit or Wabbit virus, is a program that endlessly copies itself until the operating system crashes or slows to a halt.
Fork Union Military Academy
Fork Union Military Academy (FUMA) is an all-male Baptist college preparatory military boarding school in Fork Union, Virginia, founded in 1898, known for its One Subject Plan and its football and athletic pipeline to NCAA programs.
Fork-join model
The fork-join model, also called nested parallelism, is a parallel programming model in which fork splits a task into concurrent subtasks and join waits for them to finish.
Forkhead box protein J1
Forkhead box protein J1 (FOXJ1, forkhead-like 13, HFH-4): a FOX-family transcription factor and master regulator of motile cilia formation, activated by p73, conserved across unikonts, mutated in motile ciliopathy.
Forking (model theory)
Forking is a dependence relation on types in model theory, introduced by Saharon Shelah, whose negation, non-forking, serves as an abstract independence relation generalizing linear and algebraic independence.
Forklift
A forklift is a powered industrial truck that raises and moves loads on forks, with capacity ratings limited by load center and overturn as the leading fatal hazard.
Forks (The Bear)
"Forks" is the seventh episode of The Bear season 2 (2023), written by Alex Russell and directed by Christopher Storer, in which Richie Jerimovich stages at Chicago's Ever restaurant and learns hospitality, ending with "Every Second Counts" and Taylor Swift's "Love Story."
Forks Over Knives
Forks Over Knives: 2011 documentary by Lee Fulkerson, executive produced by Brian Wendel, arguing a whole-food plant-based diet can reverse chronic disease; spawned a brand of books, recipes, courses, and a meal planner discontinued in 2026.
Forks, Washington
Forks, Washington: small city in Clallam County on the Olympic Peninsula, incorporated 1945, population 3,335 (2020). Former logging capital turned timber, government, and Twilight-tourism town near the Hoh Rain Forest.
Forky Asks a Question
Forky Asks a Question is a Pixar animated short series on Disney+ (Nov 12, 2019–Jan 10, 2020), ten ~3-minute episodes in which Toy Story 4's Forky, voiced by Tony Hale, asks toy friends about money, love, time, and cheese; written and directed by Bob Peterson, it won a 2020 Emmy for "What Is Love?".
Forlì
Forlì is a city in Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena in Emilia-Romagna with about 118,000 inhabitants, on the Via Emilia where it crosses the Montone river.
Forlorn hope
Forlorn hope: a picked band of soldiers sent first into a high-casualty assault, from Dutch verloren hoop (lost troop), folk-etymologically altered; also any desperate, nearly hopeless enterprise.
FORM (symbolic manipulation system)
FORM is an open-source symbolic manipulation system created by Jos Vermaseren of NIKHEF, started in 1984 and released as open source in 2010, used for large quantum field theory calculations.
Form 10-K
Form 10-K, also called SEC Form 10-K, is the annual report public companies file with the SEC, carrying audited financial statements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Form 10-Q
Form 10-Q is the quarterly report public companies must file with the SEC for the first three quarters of each fiscal year; the audited annual Form 10-K covers the fourth.
Form 1040
Form 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, is the IRS's main federal individual income tax form, first issued January 5, 1914; redesigned in 2018 with schedules, paired with 1040-SR for seniors, due April 15.
Form 1099
Form 1099 series: IRS information returns reporting non-wage payments such as nonemployee compensation, interest, dividends, rents, and third-party network transactions, with $2,000 post-2025 threshold and January 31 NEC deadline.
Form 20-F
Form 20-F is the SEC form that foreign private issuers use to register securities and file annual reports, due four months after each fiscal year end.
Form 4473
Form 4473 (ATF Form 5300.9), the Firearms Transaction Record, is the federal form completed for firearm transfers from licensed dealers to non-licensees, recording buyer eligibility, NICS background-check details, and firearm descriptions; revised August 2023 with a 2026 proposed overhaul.
Form 8-K
Form 8-K is the current report a US public company must file with the SEC within four business days of a significant corporate event between periodic reports.
Form closure
Form closure is a property of a robotic grasp or fixture in which the geometry of unilateral contacts alone makes the object impossible to move, without friction.
Form Energy
Form Energy is an American energy storage company, founded in 2017 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts, that makes rechargeable iron-air batteries storing electricity for up to 100 hours.
Form finding
Form finding is the structural design process of finding the equilibrium shape of a form-active structure like a cable net or membrane, using physical models or numerical methods.