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FAST (stroke)
FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) is a mnemonic teaching laypeople to spot stroke signs and call an ambulance, developed in 1998 in Newcastle and extended as BE-FAST.
Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious: Universal Pictures action franchise begun with The Fast and the Furious (2001), also called the Fast Saga, spanning eleven films, over $7 billion worldwide, and the finale Fast Forever (March 17, 2028).
Fast & Furious (2009 film)
Fast & Furious (also known as Fast & Furious 4) is a 2009 American action thriller directed by Justin Lin and starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker.
Fast & Furious 6
Fast & Furious 6, also known as Fast 6, is a 2013 American action thriller directed by Justin Lin, the sixth film in the Fast & Furious franchise.
Fast & Furious Spy Racers
Fast & Furious: Spy Racers is a DreamWorks Animation and Universal animated Netflix series (2019-2021, six seasons, 52 episodes) about Tony Toretto and teen racers infiltrating the SH1FT3R crime league, with a 2021 Rise of SH1FT3R video game.
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift
Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift is a steel roller coaster at Universal Studios Hollywood in California, opened in 2026, with cars that rotate 360 degrees to simulate drifting at up to 72 mph.
Fast & Furious: Supercharged
Fast & Furious: Supercharged is a Universal Parks attraction based on the Fast & Furious films: a 3D 360-degree-screen Studio Tour finale in Hollywood (2015) and a party-bus ride in Orlando (2018), both now closed.
Fast atom bombardment
Fast atom bombardment (FAB) is a soft ionization technique in mass spectrometry in which energetic neutral atoms strike a sample in a liquid matrix, introduced in 1981.
Fast attack craft
A fast attack craft (FAC) is a small warship, generally under 500 tons, armed with guns, torpedoes, or antiship missiles and used for coastal attack and sea denial.
Fast battleship
A fast battleship is a warship combining battleship armament and protection with speed well above contemporary battleships, beginning with the British Queen Elizabeth class in 1915.
Fast blue optical transient
A fast blue optical transient (FBOT) is a luminous astronomical explosion that rises and fades in days, far faster than a supernova; the prototype is AT2018cow.
Fast bowling
Fast bowling (pace bowling) is cricket's fastest delivery method, 130–160 km/h, using swing, seam, cutters, and slower balls; seam movement outperforms swing in ODIs, and bowlers face high lumbar injury risk and a 15-degree elbow-extension legality limit.
Fast Car
Fast Car is Tracy Chapman's 1988 folk-pop debut single about escaping poverty; it hit No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 4 in the UK, topped charts in four countries, won Chapman a Grammy, and returned to No. 1 via Luke Combs's 2023 country cover.
Fast casual restaurant
Fast casual restaurant: a dining segment combining quick-service counter ordering and speed with higher-quality ingredients, customization, and upscale ambiance, positioned between QSRs and full-service restaurants; known for Chipotle, Panera, and Shake Shack and strong 2010s growth.
Fast Charlie
Fast Charlie (2023) is Phillip Noyce's action crime thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as hitman Charlie Swift, with Morena Baccarin and James Caan in his final role, adapted from Victor Gischler's novel Gun Monkeys and released December 8, 2023.
Fast chess
Fast chess, also known as speed chess, is chess played with rapid, blitz, and bullet time controls, giving each player minutes rather than the hours of classical chess.
FAST corner detection
FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test) is a fast corner detector for digital images, introduced by Edward Rosten and Tom Drummond in 2005 for high-performance tracking.
Fast DDS
Fast DDS, formerly Fast RTPS, is an open-source C++ data distribution middleware developed by Spain's eProsima and best known as the default middleware of ROS 2.
Fast draw
Fast draw (quick draw) is a timed shooting sport with single-action revolvers firing blanks or wax bullets, sanctioned by the WFDA and CFDA; shots are timed to thousandths of a second, no live ammunition allowed.
Fast Ethernet
Fast Ethernet is the family of IEEE 802.3 standards that carries Ethernet frames at 100 megabits per second, ten times the speed of the original Ethernet.
Fast fashion
Fast fashion is a business model in apparel retailing that rapidly turns the latest trends into affordable clothing, underpinning Inditex's Zara, H&M, and ultra-fast retailer Shein.
Fast Five
Fast Five (2011), also Fast & Furious 5, is Justin Lin's Rio de Janeiro heist film, the fifth Fast & Furious entry, introducing Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs and grossing $626 million worldwide.
Fast Flux Test Facility
The Fast Flux Test Facility was a 400-megawatt sodium-cooled fast neutron research reactor at the Hanford Site in Washington, which operated from 1982 to 1992.
Fast food
Fast food, also called quick-service restaurant fare, is standardized food served rapidly by chains with limited menus and off-site suppliers. Key facts: White Castle 1921; McDonald's 1948 redesign; $1.3 trillion global industry; higher fats, salt, and refined carbs.
Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal is Eric Schlosser's 2001 investigative book on the US fast-food industry's effects on wages, health, and culture, adapted into Richard Linklater's 2006 film.
Fast Food Nation (film)
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American drama film directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Eric Schlosser, based on his 2001 book about the fast food industry.
Fast Fourier transform
The fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a family of algorithms computing the discrete Fourier transform in about N log N operations instead of N squared.
Fast Fusion
Fast Fusion is an anti-gravity racing game developed by Shin'en Multimedia, released on June 5, 2025 as a Nintendo Switch 2 launch title and the fourth FAST series entry.
FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey
The FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey is a pulsar search using China's FAST telescope, covering the Galactic plane and discovering 751 pulsars by 2024.
Fast gradient sign method
The fast gradient sign method (FGSM) is a one-step white-box adversarial attack that perturbs inputs to increase a neural network's loss, introduced by Goodfellow, Shlens, and Szegedy in 2014.