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Full schwannomatosis
Full schwannomatosis is a rare, fully expressed form of neurofibromatosis marked by multiple benign nerve sheath tumors that usually spare the vestibular nerves and often cause severe chronic pain.
Full Self-Driving
Full Self-Driving (FSD), renamed FSD (Supervised), is Tesla's Level 2 driver assistance system, first released in 2020, which navigates city streets while the driver supervises constantly.
Full shift
The full shift is the dynamical system of all infinite sequences over a fixed alphabet with the shift map, and the largest shift space on that alphabet.
Full state feedback
Full state feedback is a control design method in which the controller measures every state variable of a plant and computes the control input as a fixed linear combination of them.
Full sternotomy
A full sternotomy is an operation in which the sternum is divided lengthwise in the midline, giving wide access to the heart and great vessels for open cardiac surgery.
Full stop
The full stop (.), called period in American English, ends declarative sentences and serves as the decimal point; article covers abbreviation rules, US versus UK quotation placement, and history.
Full Swing
Full Swing is a Netflix documentary series (premiered February 15, 2023) following PGA Tour golfers on and off the course, produced by Vox Media Studios and Box to Box Films, the Drive to Survive team, across four seasons.
Full Throttle (1995 video game)
Full Throttle is LucasArts' 1995 point-and-click biker adventure by Tim Schafer, starring Ben Throttle of the Polecats on SCUMM; sold over a million copies, remastered by Double Fine in 2017.
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker, launched June 2004 by TiltWare (Bitar, Lederer, Ferguson), was the second-largest online poker room until the 2011 DOJ Black Friday seizure exposed a $390M player-fund shortfall; PokerStars acquired it in 2012 and retired the brand in 2021.
Full Tilt! Pinball
Full Tilt! Pinball is a 1995 Cinematronics pinball simulation published by Maxis with three tables: Space Cadet, Skulduggery, and Dragon's Keep; its Space Cadet table became Windows' bundled 3D Pinball.
Full Truck Alliance (满帮集团) (Manbang Group)
Full Truck Alliance, also known as Manbang Group (满帮集团), is a Chinese digital freight platform formed in 2017 and listed on the NYSE since 2021.
Full truckload
Full truckload (FTL) is a freight shipping mode in which one shipper books an entire truck or trailer for a direct move from pickup to delivery.
Full-bridge converter
A full-bridge converter is an isolated DC-DC power converter in which four switches drive a transformer primary, the standard choice for medium-to-high-power conversion above roughly 500 W.
Full-cost pricing
Full-cost pricing is a pricing practice in which a firm sets price equal to average total cost, including fixed overheads, plus a markup rather than pricing at marginal cost.
Full-Court Miracle
Full-Court Miracle is a 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie, also a Hanukkah sports drama, directed by Stuart Gillard and starring Alex D. Linz and Richard T. Jones as real-life coach Lamont Carr.
Full-depth asphalt patching
Full-depth asphalt patching is a pavement repair method that removes the entire thickness of failed asphalt and base down to stable subgrade and rebuilds it with new compacted material.
Full-depth reclamation
Full-depth reclamation is a pavement recycling method that pulverizes existing asphalt and base material in place to form a stabilized base for a new surface.
Full-duplex cellular
Full-duplex cellular, also called in-band full-duplex (IBFD), is cellular operation in which a node, typically the base station, transmits and receives at once in the same frequency band; sub-band full duplex entered 3GPP Release 18.
Full-duplex cognitive radio
Full-duplex cognitive radio (FDCR) is a cognitive radio in which the secondary user transmits and senses simultaneously using in-band full-duplex self-interference cancellation, removing the sensing-transmission tradeoff of listen-before-talk designs.
Full-duplex integrated sensing and communication
Full-duplex integrated sensing and communication (full-duplex ISAC) is a wireless system design combining in-band full duplex with ISAC, transmitting data and receiving radar echoes at the same time.
Full-duplex MAC protocol
A full-duplex MAC protocol is a medium access control protocol that schedules simultaneous transmissions for full-duplex radios, which can double spectral efficiency over conventional half-duplex wireless systems.
Full-duplex relay
A full-duplex relay is a wireless relay node that transmits and receives on the same frequency band simultaneously, forwarding traffic in the same slot to double spectral efficiency.
Full-field electroretinography
Full-field electroretinography (ffERG) is a clinical electrophysiological test recording the whole retina's electrical response to light flashes, separating rod from cone function to diagnose retinal dystrophies.
Full-length cDNA sequencing
Full-length cDNA sequencing is a transcriptomic method that copies complete messenger RNA molecules into DNA and sequences each end to end, revealing isoforms, splice sites, and gene fusions.
Full-length transcriptome sequencing
Full-length transcriptome sequencing reads entire RNA transcript molecules end to end on long-read platforms such as PacBio Iso-Seq and Oxford Nanopore, determining complete isoform sequences directly.
Full-Moon Party
Full-Moon Party (ปาร์ตี้พระจันทร์เต็มดวง) is The White Lotus season 3 episode 5, written and directed by Mike White, aired on HBO March 16, 2025; it depicts the real Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan and features Sam Rockwell's praised monologue as Frank.
Full-rigged ship
A full-rigged ship, also called a ship rig, is a sailing vessel with three or more masts, all square-rigged; the largest and most complex standard sailing rig.
Full-shape galaxy power spectrum analysis
A full-shape galaxy power spectrum analysis is a cosmological method that fits cosmological parameters to the broadband shape of the galaxy power spectrum, beyond BAO peaks.
Full-size car
A full-size car is a passenger car in the largest conventional sedan category, defined by the EPA as over 120 cubic feet of combined passenger and luggage volume.
Full-thickness resection
Full-thickness resection (FTR) is an endoscopic technique that removes a gastrointestinal lesion with all layers of the bowel or stomach wall, used for polyps and tumors that mucosal techniques cannot remove.