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Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor was an American semiconductor company headquartered in Austin, Texas, created from Motorola's semiconductor business in 2004 and merged into NXP Semiconductors in 2015.
Freestone energy center
The Freestone Energy Center is a 1,099 MW natural gas-fired combined-cycle power station in Freestone County near Fairfield, Texas, built by Calpine and placed in service in 2002.
FreeSync
AMD FreeSync is a variable refresh rate technology that synchronizes a display's refresh rate with a compatible graphics card's frame rate, reducing screen tearing, stuttering, and input latency during gaming.
Freeware
Freeware is software provided at no monetary cost. Coined by Andrew Fluegelman in 1982, the term defines packages by their price and the specific restrictions, not by technical properties.
Freeways of Iran
Freeways of Iran, known in Persian as آزادراه, are the limited-access motorways of the national road network, which spanned 2,401 km in 2015 under the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
Freewheel
A freewheel, also called an overrunning clutch, is a one-way mechanism that transmits torque in one direction of rotation and spins freely in the other.
Freewinds
The Freewinds is a cruise ship owned by the Church of Scientology, home of its highest-level spiritual retreat and the only place New OT VIII is delivered.
FreeWire Technologies
FreeWire Technologies, founded in 2014 by Arcady Sosinov, was a Newark, California maker of battery-integrated DC fast chargers for electric-vehicle fleets and retail sites that ceased operations in 2024.
Freewrite
Freewrite is a line of single-purpose electronic typewriters made by the American company Astrohaus, founded in Detroit and first released in 2016 after a Kickstarter campaign.
Freeze concentration
Freeze concentration, also called cryoconcentration, is a technique that concentrates liquid foods by freezing water out as pure ice crystals, preserving the aromas of heat-sensitive products like fruit juices and coffee.
Freeze desalination
Freeze desalination is a desalination method in which saline water is cooled until pure ice crystals form, excluding salt, then washed and melted into freshwater.
Freeze drying
Freeze drying, also known as lyophilization, is a dehydration process that freezes a material and removes its ice by sublimation under vacuum, yielding a dry, porous solid used to preserve foods, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and biological samples.
Freeze-casting
Freeze-casting is a solidification processing technique in which a suspension is directionally frozen so solvent crystals reject particles, then sublimated, leaving porous materials used in biomedicine, filtration, and batteries.
Fregat
Fregat is a Russian autonomous upper stage built by Lavochkin that flies atop Soyuz and Zenit rockets, flight-qualified in 2000, to deliver spacecraft into higher orbits.
Frei Otto
Frei Otto (1925–2015) was a German architect and structural engineer, a pioneer of lightweight tensile architecture known for the Munich Olympic Stadium roof and the Expo 67 German pavilion.
Freight brokerage
Freight brokerage is the business of arranging freight transportation between shippers and motor carriers without moving the freight itself, matching loads to trucks and negotiating rates. In the United States it requires authority from the FMCSA.
Freight forwarder
A freight forwarder, also called a forwarding agent, is a firm that organizes shipments for others by sea, air, road, or rail, without necessarily moving the goods itself.
Freight house
A freight house is a railroad building for receiving, storing, and delivering freight, most notably less-than-carload shipments; in Britain it was called a goods shed.
Freight transport
Freight transport, also called cargo transport, is the movement of goods by ocean shipping, rail, air cargo, and trucking, with about three quarters of global freight tonne-kilometers moved by sea in 2025.
Freightliner Business Class M2
The Freightliner Business Class M2, also known as the Freightliner M2, is a line of medium-duty Class 5-8 commercial trucks built by Freightliner Trucks since 2002.
Freightliner Cascadia
The Freightliner Cascadia is a Class 8 on-highway semi-truck built by Freightliner Trucks in Portland, Oregon. Introduced in 2007, it has sold over one million units.
Freightliner Century Class
The Freightliner Century Class is a Class 8 heavy-duty conventional truck produced by Freightliner from 1995 until 2010 in North America, with export production continuing to 2020.
Freightliner Trucks
Freightliner Trucks is an American manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, founded in 1942, owned by Daimler-Benz since 1981, and headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Freightways
Freightways is a New Zealand transport and logistics company, founded as New Zealand Couriers in 1964 and listed on the NZX since 2003, delivering around 100 million items a year.
Fréjus Road Tunnel
The Fréjus Road Tunnel is a 12,868 m motorway tunnel under the Alps connecting Modane, France, with Bardonecchia, Italy. Built between 1974 and 1980, it gained a second tube in 2025.
Fremantle-class patrol boat
The Fremantle-class patrol boat was a class of fifteen coastal patrol vessels operated by the Royal Australian Navy from 1980 to 2007, replaced by the Armidale class.
FREMM multipurpose frigate
The FREMM multipurpose frigate (French Aquitaine class, Italian Bergamini class) is a Franco-Italian class of multi-mission frigates developed jointly and first delivered to both navies in 2012.
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the nuclear-powered flagship of the French Navy, France's only carrier, operating Rafale M fighters from Toulon since 2001.
French aircraft carrier PA2
French aircraft carrier PA2 (Porte-Avions 2) was a planned second carrier for the French Navy, ordered in principle in 2003 and abandoned by the 2013 defense white paper.
French Army Light Aviation
French Army Light Aviation (Aviation légère de l'armée de Terre, ALAT) is the French Army's aviation branch, created in 1954, with more than 340 aircraft including Tigre attack helicopters.