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Forth and Clyde Canal

The Forth and Clyde Canal is a 35-mile ship canal in Scotland linking Grangemouth to Bowling, opened in 1790 and recognized as the world's first sea-to-sea ship canal.

Forth Road Bridge

The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge crossing the Firth of Forth between South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, and North Queensferry in Fife, opened in 1964.

FortiAnalyzer

FortiAnalyzer is a network security logging, analysis, and reporting product sold by Fortinet that aggregates log data from FortiGate firewalls and other Fortinet and third-party devices.

Forties oil field

Forties is a giant oil field in the UK North Sea, about 180 km east of Aberdeen, discovered by BP in 1970 and the largest oilfield on the UK Continental Shelf.

Forties Oil Pipeline System

The Forties Oil Pipeline System (FPS) is a North Sea oil and gas pipeline network in the UK, operating since 1975 and owned by INEOS.

Fortification

Fortification, also called defensive works, is the military art of strengthening a position against attack, evolving from earth banks and stone walls to star forts and trenches.

FortiManager

FortiManager is a centralized network security management platform from Fortinet, sold as hardware, virtual machines, and cloud, that manages up to 100,000 FortiGate firewalls and other devices from one console.

Fortin de Piedra Oil and Gas Field

Fortín de Piedra is a shale gas field in the Vaca Muerta formation in Neuquén Province, Argentina, operated by Tecpetrol since intensive development began in 2017.

Fortinet

Fortinet is an American cybersecurity company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, founded in 2000 by brothers Ken Xie and Michael Xie, best known for its FortiGate next-generation firewalls.

FortiOS

FortiOS is the operating system of Fortinet's FortiGate next-generation firewalls, running on physical, virtual, and cloud appliances with firewalling, SD-WAN, VPN, and zero trust in one code base.

Fortis Inc.

Fortis Inc. is a St. John's, Newfoundland-based holding company for regulated electric and gas utilities serving 3.5 million customers in Canada, the United States, and the Caribbean.

FortisAlberta

FortisAlberta is a regulated electricity distribution utility in Alberta, Canada, that owns the power lines serving more than 600,000 customers. It has been a subsidiary of Fortis Inc. since 2004.

FortisBC

FortisBC is the brand under which two regulated utilities deliver electricity and natural gas in British Columbia, serving more than 1.3 million customers as a subsidiary of Fortis Inc.

FortisBC Energy

FortisBC Energy is the natural gas distribution utility of British Columbia, Canada, serving most of the province, operating LNG facilities, and owned by the utility holding company Fortis Inc.

FortiSIEM

FortiSIEM is a security information and event management (SIEM) product from Fortinet, created from its 2016 acquisition of AccelOps, that combines log analysis with threat detection and compliance reporting.

FortiSOAR

FortiSOAR is a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform sold by Fortinet, acquired with CyberSponse in 2019, that centralizes case management and playbook-driven automation for security teams.

FortisOntario

FortisOntario is a Canadian electric utility headquartered in Fort Erie, Ontario, serving about 70,300 customers through three regulated utilities, as a subsidiary of Fortis Inc.

Fortive

Fortive is an American industrial technology company headquartered in Everett, Washington, created on July 2, 2016, when Danaher Corporation spun off its Test & Measurement and Industrial Technologies segments.

Fortna

Fortna is an American warehouse automation and supply chain software company founded in 1946 in Reading, Pennsylvania, now headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, that designs, integrates, and supports distribution and fulfillment operations.

Fortran

Fortran, short for "formula translation," is a compiled programming language created at IBM and released for the IBM 704 in 1957; it remains dominant in high-performance computing, climate modeling, and engineering simulation.

Fortran 77

Fortran 77 is the 1978 standardized version of the Fortran programming language that added structured control flow and remained the dominant Fortran dialect for over a decade.

Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions

Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions: Ghana's serial UNESCO World Heritage site of 28 fortified trading posts (1482-1786) along 500 km of coast, inscribed 1979 for the gold and slave trade.

Fortun hydroelectric plant

The Fortun hydroelectric plant is a Norwegian hydropower complex in Luster, Vestland, built 1959–1963 to power the Årdal aluminum smelter, with the 270 MW Skagen station as its main plant.

Fortune Electric Co., Ltd.

Fortune Electric Co., Ltd. (华城电机股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese heavy electrical equipment manufacturer of transformers and switchgear, founded in 1969, headquartered in Zhongli, Taoyuan, and supplying most Taiwanese transformer exports.

Forum Energy Technologies

Forum Energy Technologies is a Houston, Texas manufacturer of capital equipment and consumables for the oil and gas industry, founded in 2010 and traded on the NYSE as FET.

Forward air controller

A forward air controller (FAC) is a qualified military officer, normally a pilot, who directs aircraft delivering close air support to ground troops from a forward position.

Forward algorithm

The forward algorithm is a dynamic programming algorithm that computes the likelihood of an observed sequence under a hidden Markov model, summing over all hidden state paths in O(N²T) time instead of exponentially.

Forward chaining

Forward chaining is a data-driven inference method that repeatedly applies a rule-based system's rules to known facts, deriving new facts until no rule applies or a target conclusion is reached.

Forward converter

A forward converter is an isolated, buck-derived DC-DC converter that transfers energy through its transformer while the switch is on, typically serving 100 to 300 W loads.

Forward deployed engineer

A forward deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer embedded with a customer to build and ship software in the customer's environment, a role originated at Palantir Technologies.