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Ford Thunderbird
The Ford Thunderbird, known as the T-Bird, is a personal luxury car Ford produced from 1955 to 1997 and 2002 to 2005, with about 4.4 million built.
Ford Thunderbird (tenth generation)
The tenth-generation Ford Thunderbird is a personal luxury coupe built from 1989 to 1997 on the MN12 platform, and the first Thunderbird with fully independent rear suspension.
Ford Torino
The Ford Torino, also sold as the Gran Torino, is an intermediate Ford built from 1968 to 1976, named after Turin, Italy, and a NASCAR champion.
Ford Torino Talladega
The Ford Torino Talladega is a limited-production, aerodynamically modified version of the 1969 Ford Torino fastback, built by Ford to qualify its body for NASCAR.
Ford Transit
The Ford Transit is a range of commercial vans produced by Ford since 1965, developed for Europe and now sold in more than a hundred markets worldwide.
Ford Transit Connect
The Ford Transit Connect, or Ford Transit Tourneo Connect, is a compact panel van and passenger wagon built by Ford of Europe since 2002, below the full-size Transit.
Ford Trimotor
The Ford Trimotor, nicknamed the "Tin Goose", is an American three-engine all-metal airliner built by Ford from 1926 to 1933; 199 were built and flown by more than 100 airlines.
Ford Windstar
The Ford Windstar was a front-wheel-drive minivan built by Ford at Oakville, Ontario from 1995 to 2003, replacing the Aerostar and competing with the Chrysler minivans.
Ford Y-block engine
The Ford Y-block engine is an overhead-valve V8 that Ford introduced in 1954 to replace its Flathead V8, serving as its top performance engine through 1957.
Ford Zephyr
The Ford Zephyr was a large saloon built by Ford of Britain from 1951 to 1972 across four generations, spawning the upmarket Zodiac and ending with the Granada.
Ford Zetec engine
The Ford Zetec engine is a family of four-cylinder petrol engines that Ford introduced in 1992 and used in the Escort, Fiesta, Mondeo, and Focus until 2004.
Fording River Operations
Fording River Operations is a large surface steelmaking coal mine near Elkford in the Elk Valley of southeastern British Columbia, producing metallurgical coal since 1972.
Fordism
Fordism is a system of industrial organization named after Henry Ford, in which standardized goods are mass-produced on assembly lines by semi-skilled workers and sold cheaply to a mass market.
Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant
The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is an Iranian facility built inside a mountainside near Qom where uranium was enriched to 60 percent U-235, revealed in 2009.
Forebay
A forebay is a basin or reservoir immediately upstream of a hydropower plant's intake, where the channel ends and the penstock carries water to the turbines.
Forecastle
The forecastle, pronounced fo'c's'le, is a raised structure at a ship's bow formed by carrying hull plating up one deck height, named for medieval fighting castles and later the crew's living quarters.
ForeFlight
ForeFlight is an American aviation software company founded in 2007, best known for ForeFlight Mobile, an electronic flight bag app for iPad and iPhone combining flight planning, weather, and charts.
Foreign function interface
A foreign function interface (FFI) is a mechanism that lets code written in one programming language call functions and exchange data with code written in another, most often C.
Foreign key
A foreign key, also known as a foreign key constraint, is a column or column group that must match a key in a referenced table, enforcing referential integrity.
Foreign Military Sales
Foreign Military Sales (FMS) is the US government program for selling defense articles, services, and training to foreign countries, authorized by the Arms Export Control Act of 1976.
Foreign object damage
Foreign object damage, or foreign object debris (FOD), is damage to aircraft, engines, or aerospace hardware from stray objects, and the term also names prevention programs.
Forensic engineering
Forensic engineering is the application of engineering principles to investigate failures and performance problems in buildings, products, and machinery, and to give expert testimony in court.
Forest harvesting residues
Forest harvesting residues, also called logging residues or slash, are the woody material left after timber harvesting: branches, tops, stumps, and unmerchantable trees, used for bioenergy.
Forester (Chernobyl robot)
The Forester, also given as Foresteri, was a Finnish robotic manipulator reportedly used at Chernobyl for loading radiation-hazardous waste, losing functionality quickly in the high radiation fields.
Forge
A forge shapes metal by compressive deformation rather than melting and casting, an ancient process dating to 5000 BC whose refined grain structure gives forged parts the strength needed in aircraft, cars, and drilling equipment.
Forgejo
Forgejo is a self-hosted software forge written in Go under GPL-3.0, offering repository hosting, issue tracking, and CI; forked from Gitea in 2022, it powers Codeberg.
Forging
Forging is a manufacturing process in which metal is shaped by compressive forces from hammers or presses, typically while heated, yielding parts with refined grain structure and high fatigue resistance.
Forgiving roadside concept
The forgiving roadside concept is a highway design philosophy that gives errant vehicles a clear zone to recover, stop safely, or slow down instead of striking hazards.
Fork (software development)
A fork, or software fork, is a copy of an existing code base developed separately from the original project, either to propose changes back or to start an independent line.
Fork bomb
A fork bomb, also known as a Rabbit or Wabbit virus, is a program that endlessly copies itself until the operating system crashes or slows to a halt.