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FS Class E.464
The FS Class E.464 is a single-cab, four-axle electric locomotive built by Bombardier in Vado Ligure, Italy, for Trenitalia's regional passenger trains, with roughly 700 units delivered from 1999.
FS Class E.656
The FS Class E.656, nicknamed Caimano, is a 3,000 V DC electric locomotive built for the Italian State Railways between 1975 and 1989 in 461 units.
FS Class ETR 600
FS Class ETR 600 is a class of seven-car high-speed tilting electric trains built by Alstom for the Italian operator Trenitalia, in service since 2008.
Fs metta
FS Metta (Futbola skola Metta) is a Latvian football school and academy in Riga founded 2 May 2006 by Ģirts Mihelsons and Andris Riherts; its senior team FK Metta (Metta/LU until 2019) debuted in the Virslīga in 2012.
FSB Special Purpose Center
FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN, Центр специального назначения) is Russia's FSB special operations formation, founded 8 October 1998, uniting Alpha and Vympel directorates for counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and special missions.
FSCN1
FSCN1 (fascin, fascin-1), gene at 7p22.1, is a 493-amino-acid actin-bundling protein building filopodia for cell migration; re-expressed in carcinomas, it marks poor prognosis and is targeted by the fascin inhibitor NP-G2-044.
Fsn Capital
FSN Capital Partners AS is a Norwegian mid-market private equity firm founded in 1999, headquartered in Oslo with offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Munich, advising buyout funds.
Fstab
fstab is the file /etc/fstab on Unix and Unix-like systems, a static table describing the filesystems the system can mount, read by mount, umount, and fsck at boot.
FSTL1
FSTL1 (follistatin like 1, FRP, TSC-36) is a secreted 35 kDa matricellular glycoprotein gene on 3q13.33 with context-dependent roles: cardioprotective and pro-angiogenic, pro-fibrotic and pro-inflammatory in chronic disease, and tumor-promoting or suppressing by cancer type.
FSW (satellite bus)
FSW, short for Fanhui Shi Weixing (返回式卫星, recoverable satellite), is a series of Chinese recoverable satellite buses built by CAST since 1974 that returned film and experiment capsules to China.
FTA - Botanical garden
Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Tropical Agri-Food Systems (Botanická zahrada FTZ), Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Suchdol; founded 1968, specializes in tropical and subtropical useful plants, holds three National Collections including citrus.
FTAI Aviation
FTAI Aviation Ltd. is a Cayman Islands aircraft engine maintenance and leasing company focused on CFM56 and V2500 engines powering Boeing 737NG and Airbus A320ceo aircraft.
FTAI Energy Partners LLC
FTAI Energy Partners LLC is a Delaware holding company that held FTAI's stake in the Jefferson Terminal crude oil logistics complex at the Port of Beaumont, Texas.
FTC-133
FTC-133 (FTC133, CVCL_1219) is a human follicular thyroid carcinoma cell line from a 42-year-old male, TP53 and PTEN mutant, near-homozygous genome, PAX8/TTF-1 positive, and flown in space on Shenzhou-8 and the ISS.
Ftibamzone
Ftibamzone (酞丁安, phthiobuzone, V6133), a thiosemicarbazone topical antiviral developed in China, inhibits viral DNA and early protein synthesis; used for herpes simplex, zoster, trachoma, and condyloma acuminatum, not US-approved.
FTIR microspectroscopy
FTIR microspectroscopy couples a Fourier-transform infrared spectrometer to a microscope, measuring infrared absorption spectra from small samples without labels to map chemical composition in tissue and cells.
FTL
FTL (ferritin light chain, HGNC:3999, FTL1/NBIA3) is a human protein-coding gene at 19q13.33 encoding the 19 kDa light subunit of the 24-subunit iron-storage protein ferritin; variants cause hereditary hyperferritinemia-cataract syndrome and neuroferritinopathy.
FTL: Faster Than Light
FTL: Faster Than Light is a 2012 top-down real-time strategy roguelike by Subset Games (Matthew Davis, Justin Ma), Kickstarter-funded, featuring permadeath, ship power management, and the Rebel Flagship; Metacritic 84, Steam 95% positive.
FTO gene
FTO (fat mass and obesity-associated gene), also called the FTO obesity locus on chromosome 16, was the first GWAS-identified obesity gene (2007) and encodes the first known m6A RNA demethylase; its common risk alleles raise BMI by 0.39 kg/m2 per copy but do not block weight loss.
FTPS
FTPS, also called FTP Secure or FTP-SSL, is an extension of the File Transfer Protocol that adds TLS encryption and authentication, specified in RFC 4217 in October 2005.
FTR (professional wrestling)
FTR is the AEW tag team of Cash Wheeler and Dax Harwood, formerly WWE's The Revival, the first WWE Triple Crown tag champions and three-time AEW World Tag Team Champions.
FTSE 100 Index
The FTSE 100 is a market-capitalization weighted index of the 100 largest blue chip companies traded on the London Stock Exchange, launched on 3 January 1984 at 1,000 points.
FTSE4Good Index Series
The FTSE4Good Index Series is a family of equity indexes launched by FTSE in 2001 that selects companies using transparent environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria rather than market size alone.
FTU (tokamak)
FTU, or Frascati Tokamak Upgrade, was a compact, high-magnetic-field tokamak fusion experiment operated by ENEA at Frascati near Rome, with first plasma in 1990 and shutdown in 2019.
FTV (satellite series)
FTV, or Flight Test Vehicle, was the numbering scheme the US Air Force used to identify classified SAMOS reconnaissance satellites launched between 1962 and 1963.
FTV Capital (private equity firm)
FTV Capital is a San Francisco growth equity firm founded in 1998 as FTVentures, investing in financial technology, vertical software, and healthcare technology, with over $10.2 billion raised.
FTW Championship
FTW Championship: unsanctioned professional wrestling title created by Taz in ECW on May 14, 1998 (also called Brooklyn World Championship), unified into the ECW World title in 1999, revived in AEW 2020–2024, retired by HOOK on September 25, 2024.
FTX
FTX, formally FTX Trading Ltd., was a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried that collapsed into bankruptcy in 2022 after about $8 billion in customer deposits was misappropriated.
Fu (rhapsody)
Fu (賦) is a major genre of classical Chinese literature, usually translated "rhapsody" or "rhyme-prose," a rhymed, prose-poetic form used for exhaustive description that flourished as the dominant Han dynasty genre.
Fu Bao (panda)
Fu Bao (福宝), female giant panda born 2020 at Everland, South Korea, first panda born in Korea, offspring of Ai Bao and Le Bao; returned to China's Wolong Shenshuping Base in April 2024 amid fan welfare campaigns.