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Full-time equivalent
A full-time equivalent (FTE) is a unit for converting part-time and full-time work hours into the number of full-time workers they equal, widely used in official statistics.
Full-waveform inversion
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a seismic imaging method that iteratively adjusts a subsurface velocity model until simulated seismic waves match recorded survey data, waveform by waveform.
Fullback (gridiron football)
Fullback (gridiron football): a running back position, typically the larger back behind the quarterback, serving as lead blocker for the halfback; once a featured power runner (Jim Brown era), now a specialized NFL role carried by 13 of 32 teams in 2025.
Fuller (groove)
A fuller, also known as a blood groove, is a groove cut into a blade, most familiar from European swords, that lightens the blade without weakening it.
Fuller Albright
Fuller Albright (1900–1969) was an American endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard who built the modern clinical study of calcium metabolism and metabolic bone disease, coining postmenopausal osteoporosis.
Fuller Brooch
The Fuller Brooch is a late ninth-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello disc brooch in the British Museum, the earliest English depiction of the Five Senses.
Fuller House (TV series)
Fuller House is the Netflix sequel sitcom to Full House (1987–1995), created by Jeff Franklin, running five seasons and 75 episodes from February 26, 2016 to 2020, starring Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and Andrea Barber as D.J., Stephanie, and Kimmy raising D.J.'s three sons; the Olsen twins declined to return as Michelle.
Fuller W. Bazer
Fuller W. Bazer is an American animal scientist and reproductive biologist at Texas A&M who identified the pregnancy recognition signals in pigs and ruminants, winning the 2003 Wolf Prize.
Fuller Warren Bridge
The Fuller Warren Bridge carries Interstate 95 over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, named for Governor Fuller Warren; about 170,000 vehicles cross daily.
Fuller's earth
Fuller's earth, also known as bleaching earth or Multani Mitti, is any naturally occurring clay with high absorptive capacity, used to clean wool, absorb oils, and decolorize fats.
Fullerene
A fullerene is a closed, hollow cage molecule of carbon atoms, the third allotrope of carbon after diamond and graphite; buckminsterfullerene, C60, was discovered in 1985.
Fullerene drug delivery
Fullerene drug delivery is the use of fullerene cages, most often the 60-carbon C60 buckyball, as nanoscale carriers that deliver drugs to target tissues, especially in combined chemo-photodynamic cancer therapy.
Fullerene glass
Fullerene glass refers to amorphous carbon materials made directly from fullerenes by high-pressure, high-temperature treatment, such as the superhard AM-III, and to silica glasses doped with C₆₀ fullerene molecules used as optical limiters.
Fullerene-free organic solar cells
Fullerene-free organic solar cells are organic photovoltaic devices whose electron acceptor is a tunable synthetic molecule rather than a fullerene like PCBM, reaching over 18% efficiency by 2021.
Fullerton, California
Fullerton, California: city in northwestern Orange County, founded 1887 by the Amerige brothers, incorporated 1904. Population 143,617 (2020), home of Cal State Fullerton, council-manager government.
Fulling
Fulling, also called milling, tucking, or waulking, is a wet wool-finishing process that cleanses woven cloth and shrinks it 10-50 percent by interlocking wool scales under moisture, heat, and friction; mechanized in water-powered fulling mills from the twelfth century.
Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師)
Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師) is Hiromu Arakawa's 2001–2010 shōnen manga, 27 volumes, about the Elric brothers seeking the Philosopher's Stone; adapted as the original-story 2003 anime and the manga-faithful 2009 Brotherhood.
Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師) (film)
Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師) is the 2017 Japanese live-action film directed by Fumihiko Sori, starring Ryosuke Yamada as Edward Elric, adapting the manga's first five volumes, released December 1, 2017 by Warner Bros. Japan, followed by two 2022 sequels.
Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師) (TV series)
Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師) is the 2003 Bones TV anime, 51 episodes directed by Seiji Mizushima on MBS, which diverged from Hiromu Arakawa's unfinished manga into an original story with Dante as villain, followed by the 2005 Conqueror of Shamballa film, distinct from the 2009 Brotherhood adaptation.
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (劇場版 鋼の錬金術師 シャンバラを征く者)
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (劇場版 鋼の錬金術師 シャンバラを征く者) is a 2005 Bones anime film directed by Seiji Mizushima that concludes the 2003 series; Edward Elric is stranded in 1923 Munich as the Thule Society opens a gate to Amestris.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (鋼の錬金術師 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST), 2009–2010 Bones anime directed by Yasuhiro Irie, 64 episodes, faithful complete adaptation of Hiromu Arakawa's manga, distinct from the 2003 original-story anime.
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (鋼の錬金術師 嘆きの丘の聖なる星)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (鋼の錬金術師 嘆きの丘の聖なる星) is a 2011 Bones anime film, the franchise's second, an original Brotherhood-continuity side story directed by Kazuya Murata, released July 2, 2011 in Japan and January 20, 2012 in the US.
Fullmoon Island
Fullmoon Island: a Sinnoh location in Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum where Cresselia and the Lunar Wing are found, and Full Moon Private Island, a 14-villa resort on Koh Ampil, Koh Kong, Cambodia, founded in 2008.
FULLPROF
FULLPROF, or the FullProf Suite, is a crystallographic program suite created by Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal in the early 1990s for Rietveld refinement of powder diffraction data, best known for magnetic structure analysis.
Fullscreen (company)
Fullscreen was an American Los Angeles YouTube multi-channel network founded January 2011 by George Strompolos; at peak 50,000 creators and 4 billion monthly views, sold to Otter Media (Chernin/AT&T) in 2014, dissolved October 31, 2021, succeeded by Elreration.
FullStory
FullStory is an Atlanta-based software company founded in 2014 by Scott Voigt, Bruce Johnson, and Joel Webber that records and analyzes how users interact with websites and apps.
Fulltime Killer (全职杀手)
Fulltime Killer (全职杀手) is a 2001 Hong Kong action thriller by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai, starring Andy Lau and Takashi Sorimachi as rival professional assassins.
Fully Charged
Fully Charged is a British YouTube series and podcast on electric vehicles and clean energy, created by Robert Llewellyn in June 2010, known for its "Stop Burning Stuff" slogan, Patreon-funded independence, and Fully Charged LIVE expos; distinct from the 2018 animated series Mega Man: Fully Charged.
Fully convolutional network
A fully convolutional network (FCN) is a neural network architecture for image segmentation that replaces fully connected layers with convolutions, producing dense per-pixel predictions from inputs of any size.
Fully depleted silicon on insulator
Fully depleted silicon on insulator (FD-SOI, FDSOI) is a planar CMOS transistor technology with an ultra-thin silicon channel on a buried oxide, known for low power and dynamic back biasing.