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Feature Policy
Feature Policy is a former W3C web platform mechanism for enabling or disabling browser features such as geolocation and camera, renamed Permissions Policy in 2020.
Feature pyramid network
A feature pyramid network (FPN) is a computer vision component that builds multi-scale feature maps from one image pass, helping detectors recognize objects of very different sizes.
Feature recognition
Feature recognition, also called automatic feature recognition, is the task of detecting machining features such as holes, slots, and pockets in CAD solid models, bridging design and manufacturing.
Feature scaling
Feature scaling is a machine learning preprocessing step that rescales the numeric features of a dataset to comparable ranges, such as zero mean and unit variance, before training a model.
Feature selection
Feature selection, also called variable or input selection, chooses a subset of a dataset's variables for a machine learning model to improve prediction and reduce overfitting.
Feature store
Feature store: a data system for storing, managing, and serving ML features consistently across training and inference. Also called feature platform (Tecton, Feast). Defined by dual offline/online stores, point-in-time correctness, and prevention of training-serving skew; emerged with Uber's Michelangelo in 2017.
Feature toggle
A feature toggle, also called a feature flag or feature flipper, is a mechanism that switches software functionality on or off at runtime, without code changes or redeployment, separating deployment from release.
Feature-driven development
Feature-driven development (FDD) is an agile software development method that organizes work around client-valued features, developed by Jeff De Luca and Peter Coad in the late 1990s.
Featureform
Featureform: open-source virtual feature store for machine learning, founded January 2021 by Simba Khadder and Shabnam Mokhtarani in San Francisco (formerly StreamSQL). MPL-2.0 licensed; orchestrates existing data infrastructure. Acquired by Redis October 2025, now Redis Feature Form.
Fecal coliform
Fecal coliform bacteria are a subgroup of coliforms that ferment lactose at 44.5 °C and were long used as water quality indicators, including the EPA's 1976 recreational criteria.
FeCrAl cladding
FeCrAl cladding is nuclear fuel rod cladding made of iron-chromium-aluminum alloy, developed as an accident-tolerant fuel material because it resists high-temperature steam oxidation far better than zirconium alloys.
Feder–Vardi theorem
The Feder–Vardi theorem states that every fixed-template constraint satisfaction problem is solvable in polynomial time or is NP-complete, proved in 2017 by Bulatov and Zhuk.
Federal Agency for Air Transport
The Federal Agency for Air Transport, or Rosaviatsia, is Russia's civil aviation authority under the Ministry of Transport. Established in 2004 and headquartered in Moscow, it certifies aircraft and aerodromes.
Federal Agency for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection
The Federal Agency for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection is the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina's radiation protection body, created in 1999 under the Federal Ministry of Health.
Federal architecture
Federal architecture, also called the Adam style, is an American building style dominant from about 1780 to 1820 that refined the Georgian style with delicate classical ornament.
Federal Aviation Act of 1958
The Federal Aviation Act of 1958 is a United States federal law, signed August 23, 1958, that created the independent Federal Aviation Agency and consolidated federal civil aviation authority.
Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Organization
The Air Traffic Organization (ATO) is the operational arm of the Federal Aviation Administration that manages US air traffic control, handling more than 45,000 flights daily.
Federal Aviation Regulations
The Federal Aviation Regulations, also called FAA Regulations, are the United States federal rules governing civil aviation, codified in Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula
The Federal Bridge Gross Weight Formula, or Bridge Formula B, is a US formula limiting the weight of consecutive truck axles on Interstate highways, enacted in 1975.
Federal canal legislation in the United States
Federal canal legislation in the United States encompasses statutes directed at canals, including the 1824 General Survey Act and the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.
Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal
The Federal Company for Radioactive Waste Disposal (Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung, BGE) is Germany's wholly federal radioactive waste disposal company, established by legislation in force 30 July 2016.
Federal Express Flight 705
Federal Express Flight 705 was a 1994 cargo flight from Memphis on which off-duty flight engineer Auburn Calloway attacked the crew, who subdued him and landed safely.
Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), created in 1966, is a US Department of Transportation agency that helps states design, build, and maintain the nation's highways.
Federal Information Processing Standards
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology for federal agencies, including FIPS 140-3 for cryptographic module security.
Federal Information Security Modernization Act
The Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) is the United States law requiring federal agencies to run agency-wide information security programs, with NIST setting standards and OMB overseeing compliance.
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr, BMDV) was a German federal ministry combining transport and digital policy from 2021 to 2025.
Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology of Austria
The Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) was an Austrian federal ministry, active from 2000 to 2020, responsible for transport, research, and telecom regulation.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are the United States federal safety rules for commercial motor vehicles and their drivers, administered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
The Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) are minimum performance requirements for motor vehicles sold in the United States, issued by NHTSA under the 1966 Motor Vehicle Safety Act.
Federal National Grid Company
Federal National Grid Company is not identified as an entity in the sources; the documented restructuring is Nigeria's 2024 unbundling of the Transmission Company of Nigeria into NISO and a transmission provider.