All articles starting with F

Former British Consulate at Takao

Former British Consulate at Takao (打狗英國領事館), a restored 1879 Qing-era British consular complex in Kaohsiung, Taiwan: hilltop residence, shore offices, and hiking trail, now a national historic site and museum.

Former constellations

Former constellations, also called obsolete constellations, are star patterns that appeared on historical star charts but are not among the 88 constellations the IAU recognized in 1922.

Former eastern territories of Germany

Former eastern territories of Germany (ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete): Hinterpommern, Neumark, East Prussia, Silesia, West Prussia within 1937 borders, placed under Polish and Soviet administration in 1945; distinct from the DDR; border recognized by the 1970 Warsaw Treaty and 1990 Two Plus Four Treaty.

Former Liang

Former Liang (前涼) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms ruled by the Zhang clan over the Hexi region of northwestern China from 301, with its capital at Guzang.

Former national monuments of the United States

Former national monuments of the United States are areas whose national monument status ended by act of Congress, transfer, or redesignation, most often into national parks.

Former Presidents Act

Former Presidents Act (FPA), 3 U.S.C. §102 note, Public Law 85-745 of August 25, 1958: US law giving ex-presidents a lifetime Cabinet-level pension, GSA-funded office and staff, travel funds, and mailing privileges, prompted by Harry Truman's post-presidency finances.

Former Qin

Former Qin (前秦) was a Sixteen Kingdoms state founded by the Di leader Fu Jian, who made Chang'an his capital after the Shi regime collapsed.

Sep 25, 2026

Former Qin's unification of northern China

Former Qin's unification of northern China (前秦統一北方) was the unification of northern China by the Di-led Former Qin under Fu Jian, based at Chang'an, the largest Sixteen Kingdoms territory.

Former Shu

Former Shu (前蜀) was one of the Ten Kingdoms of China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, ruling Sichuan and parts of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Hubei from Chengdu.

Former villages of Japan

Former villages of Japan are village municipalities dissolved as local governments, chiefly in the Meiji, Shōwa, and Heisei merger waves, falling from over 59,000 to under 200.

Former Yan

Former Yan (前燕) was a Sixteen Kingdoms state in northeastern China founded by the Xianbei Murong clan, which claimed the imperial title in 352 and fell in 370.

Formetanate

Formetanate, a carbamate insecticide and acaricide used as the hydrochloride salt (Dicarzol), inhibits acetylcholinesterase; EU approval for tomato and ornamental thrips control expires 30 September 2026.

FormFactor

FormFactor is an American semiconductor test and measurement company headquartered in Livermore, California, founded in 1993 by former IBM researcher Igor Khandros and the leading supplier of wafer probe cards.

Formiae

Formiae (Formia), ancient coastal town of Latium on the Via Appia in the Gulf of Gaeta; Roman municipium, Hadrianic colonia, resort of villas, place of Cicero's villa and death in 43 BC, later Mola and Castellone.

Formic (company)

Formic is an American Robotics-as-a-Service company founded by Saman Farid in Chicago in 2020 that deploys industrial robots in small and mid-sized manufacturers for an hourly rate.

Formic acid

Formic acid, also known as methanoic acid (HCOOH), is the simplest carboxylic acid, a corrosive liquid found in ant venom and used industrially for silage preservation and leather tanning.

Formic acid decomposition for hydrogen release

Formic acid decomposition for hydrogen release is the catalytic splitting of formic acid into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, using the acid as a liquid hydrogen carrier.

Oct 20, 2026

Formica

Formica names several works: a 1996 Piatnik magnetic ant-capture board game by Lorrigan and Ray, a free Unreal Engine ant-war RTS by Ungar on Steam (2026), a b68Interactive platformer, and a multi-robot task allocation paper.

Formica (plastic)

Formica is a brand of high-pressure decorative laminate, invented in 1913 in Cincinnati as an electrical insulator and later a defining material of mid-century American kitchens.

Formicarium

Formicarium: a purpose-built artificial ant nest with a brood chamber connected to an outworld foraging area, distinct from a simple ant farm. Made from test tubes, acrylic, Ytong, gypsum, or 3D-printed materials; US interstate ant movement requires a PPQ 526 permit.

Formicarius

Formicarius (Boddaert, 1783) is a genus of Neotropical antthrushes, family Formicariidae, type species F. colma; terrestrial forest-floor birds including the Black-faced, Rufous-capped, and Mayan Antthrushes.

Formication

Formication: tactile hallucination of insects crawling on or under the skin, from Latin formica (ant). Symptom of stimulant intoxication, menopause, neuropathy, and delusional infestation; not a delusion by itself.

Formicidae

Formicidae (ants, fourmis) is the eusocial hymenopteran family established by Latreille in 1802, with 16 extant subfamilies, 349 genera, and 14,510 valid species, Cretaceous origin, and dominant terrestrial biomass.

Oct 20, 2026

Formiminoglutamic aciduria

Formiminoglutamic aciduria, also called FTCD deficiency, is a rare inherited folate metabolism disorder causing buildup of FIGLU, with symptoms ranging from developmental delay to none.

Sep 29, 2026

Forming limit diagram

A forming limit diagram (FLD) plots the major and minor strains at which sheet metal necks locally, defining a formability limit used in stamping and sheet-metal design.

Formlabs

Formlabs is an American 3D printing company founded in 2011 by three MIT graduate students, known for desktop and industrial stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) printers.

Oct 22, 2026

Formline art

Formline art is the design system of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian peoples of the Northwest Coast, built from flowing, tapering lines around ovoids and U-shapes.

Formo (company)

Formo, also known as Formo Foods GmbH and formerly LegenDairy Foods, is a German food-biotechnology company founded in Berlin in 2019 that makes animal-free cheese and casein proteins by fermentation.