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FieldTurf
FieldTurf is a Canadian artificial turf brand, now part of Tarkett Sports, that invented the long-pile, infilled system in the early 1990s and reports more than 20,000 installations worldwide.
Fieldwood Energy
Fieldwood Energy is an oil and gas company founded in 2013 to operate Gulf of Mexico assets acquired from Apache, with a Mexican subsidiary producing the Ichalkil and Pokoch fields.
Fiesta (dinnerware)
Fiesta, also called Fiestaware, is an Art Deco line of solid-colored dinnerware introduced in 1936 by the Homer Laughlin China Company and designed by Frederick Hurten Rhead.
FIFI (aircraft)
FIFI is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress owned by the Commemorative Air Force and one of only two B-29s still flying, based in Dallas, Texas, and touring annually.
FIFO (computing)
FIFO, first-in-first-out, is a queue discipline in which the first item added is the first removed, used in router buffers, CPU scheduling, and concurrent queues.
Fifteenth Air Force
The Fifteenth Air Force is a Numbered Air Force of the United States Air Force, headquartered at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, under Air Combat Command.
Fifth Gas Transmission Pipeline Project
The Fifth Gas Transmission Pipeline Project (5TP) is a PTT-owned natural gas pipeline in Thailand, running about 415 kilometers from Rayong province to Sai Noi and Bangkok power plants.
Fifth wheel coupling
A fifth wheel coupling is the horseshoe-shaped locking device on a truck tractor that connects it to a semitrailer and lets the trailer pivot in turns.
Fifth-generation fighter
A fifth-generation fighter is a stealth combat jet defined by sensor fusion and networking rather than speed alone; examples include the F-22, F-35, Chengdu J-20, and Sukhoi Su-57.
Fifth-rate
A fifth-rate was a class of British Royal Navy warship carrying 30 to 50 carriage guns, from the mid-18th century onward the frigate, used for cruising and scouting.
Fighter ace culture and mythology
Fighter ace culture and mythology traces how the five-victory ace, coined by French newspapers in World War I, became a propaganda hero and film archetype.
Fighter aircraft
A fighter aircraft, or fighter jet, is a military aircraft designed primarily to destroy other aircraft in air-to-air combat, with specialized fighters emerging by 1916 in World War I.
Fighter pilot
A fighter pilot, also called a combat pilot, is a military aviator who flies fighter aircraft in air-to-air and air-to-surface combat, including weapons delivery and electronic warfare.
Fighter-bomber
A fighter-bomber (Jagdbomber) is a fighter aircraft modified or mainly used to attack surface targets with bombs while keeping enough performance to defend itself in air combat.
Figma (software)
Figma, also known as Figma.com, is a collaborative browser-based interface design tool for websites and mobile apps, founded by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace in 2012 and launched in 2016.
FIGS (company)
FIGS is an American direct-to-consumer brand in Santa Monica, California, selling premium scrubs to healthcare professionals. It was founded in 2013 and went public in 2021.
Figure AI
Figure AI is a California robotics company founded by Brett Adcock in 2022 that develops autonomous humanoid robots and the Helix AI system that controls them.
Figure AI valuation surge
The Figure AI valuation surge was the September 2025 Series C in which the humanoid robotics company raised over $1 billion at a $39 billion valuation, roughly 15 times its 2024 mark.
Figure Helix
Helix is a vision-language-action model family from the robotics company Figure, announced in February 2025 and extended in January 2026 with Helix 02 for full-body control of its humanoid robots.
Figure Technology Solutions
Figure Technology Solutions is an American financial technology company founded in 2018 by SoFi co-founder Mike Cagney, best known for originating home equity lines of credit on a blockchain.
Fiji Airways
Fiji Airways, formerly Air Pacific, is the flag carrier of Fiji, founded in 1951 by aviator Harold Gatty and majority owned by the Government of Fiji, with its hub at Nadi International Airport.
Fiji–Norfolk Island and Pacific Islands telegraph cables
The Fiji–Norfolk Island telegraph cables, laid in 1902, formed part of the all-British Pacific Cable from Vancouver to Australia and New Zealand, an "All-Red" route through only British territory that operated until 1962.
Fikri J. Kuchuk
Fikri J. Kuchuk is a petroleum engineer who rose to fellow and chief reservoir engineer at Schlumberger, known for pressure transient well testing and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.
Filament winding
Filament winding is a composite manufacturing process in which continuous fibers are wound under tension onto a rotating mandrel to produce hollow structures such as pipes, tanks, pressure vessels, and drive shafts.
File (tool)
A file is a hand tool of hardened steel with small cutting edges raised on its surfaces, used for smoothing or forming metal, deburring edges, and making parts fit.
File Allocation Table
File Allocation Table (FAT) is a Microsoft file system family, created in 1977, that locates files by following a chain of table entries on disk.
File descriptor
A file descriptor, also known as a file handle, is a small nonnegative integer indexing a process's open files, used by system calls like read and write.
File Explorer
File Explorer, also known as Windows File Explorer, is the file manager of Microsoft Windows. Its explorer.exe process also draws the desktop and taskbar, and the renamed File Explorer name dates to Windows 8.
File format
A file format is a set of conventions defining how information is encoded in a digital file so software can process it, identified by extensions and magic numbers.
File manager
A file manager, also called a file browser, is a program that displays files and folders and can copy, move, rename, delete, search, and open them.