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Fabric Computing

Fabric Port (F_Port)

Fabric-Based Infrastructure (FBI)

Facebook Commerce (F-Commerce)

Facebook Connect

Facebook Forced Invite

Facebook Graph API

Facebook Immune System (FIS)

Facebook Insights

Facebook Insights Dashboard

Facebook Like Button

Facebook Like-Gating

Facebook Messenger

Facebook Mini-feed

Facebook Mobile

Facebook News Feed

Facebook Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (FBOCD)

Facebook Official

Facebook Platform

Facebook Questions

Facebook Shadow Profile

Facebook Stalking

Facebook Status

Facebook Timeline

Facial Recognition

Facial Recognition Software

Facility Management

Facsimile (Fax)

Facsimile Machine (Fax Machine)

Failure Between Keyboard And Seat (FBKS)

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

Failure-Directed Testing

False Acceptance

False Acceptance Ratio (FAR)

False Negatives

False Rejection

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI)

Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

Fast Infoset (FI)

Fast Packet Switching

Fast User Switching

Fat Application

Fat-Finger Error

Fatal Exception

Fault Configuration Accounting Performance Security (FCAPS)

Fault Management

Fault Tolerance

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Favorite Icon (Favicon)

Fax Over Internet Protocol (FoIP)

FBI Computer Scam

FC

FCL

FD

Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)

Fear-Driven Development (FDD)

Feasibility Study

Feature Group D (FGD)

Feature Selection

Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC)

Federal Health Architecture (FHA)

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)

Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)

Federal Information Technology Strategic Plan of 2011-2015

Federal Internet Exchange (FIX)

Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNET)

Federal Networking Council (FNC)

Federal Protective Service (FPS)

Federal Risk and Authorization Program (FedRAMP)

Federated Application Life Cycle Management (FALM)

Federated Identity Management (FIM)

Federated Identity Manager (FIM)

Federated Network Identity

Federation Against Software Theft (FAST)

Feed Aggregator

Feedforward Neural Network

Feistel Network

Female Connector

Fencepost Error

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

Ferroelectric Random Access Memory (FRAM)

FI

Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG)

Fiber Channel (FC)

Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

Fiber Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE)

Fiber Channel over Internet Protocol (FCIP)

Fiber Channel Storage Area Network (FC SAN)

Fiber Connection (FICON)

Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

Fiber Media Converter

Fiber Optic Adapter

Fiber Optic Coupler

Fiber Optic Jumper

Fiber Optic Sensor

Fiber Optic Switch

Fiber Optic Termination

Fiber Optic Transceiver

Fiber to the Building (FTTB)

Fiber to the Curb (FTTC)

Fiber to the Home (FTTH)

Fiber to the Node (FTTN)

Fiber To The Premises (FTTP)

Fiber-Optic Service (FiOS)

Fibonacci Sequence

Field Area Router (FAR)

Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

Fifth Generation (Programming) Language (5GL)

Fifth Generation Wireless (5G)

File Allocation Table (FAT)

File Allocation Table 32 (FAT32)

File Area Network (FAN)

File Compression

File Descriptor (FD)

File Encryption Software

File Exchange Protocol (FXP)

File Hosting Service

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)

File Management System

File Replication Service (FRS)

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

File Transfer Protocol Client (FTP Client)

File Transfer Protocol With SSL Security (FTPS)

File Virtualization

File-Infecting Virus

File-Sharing Service

Fileless Malware

Financial Information Exchange (FIX)

Financial Information System (FIS)

Financial Malware

Financial Modernization Act of 1999

Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)

Financial Services Markup Language (FSML)

Financial Software

Fine-Structure Constant

Finger Vein Recognition

Fingerprint Scanner

Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

Firewall Bank Account

Firmware Over-The-Air (FOTA)

First Come, First Served (FCFS)

First Generation (Programming) Language (1GL)

First Normal Form (1NF)

First Person Shooter (FPS)

First Sale Doctrine

Fixed Disk (FDISK)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)

Flapping Router

Flat Address Space

Flat File Database

Flat File System

Flat Panel Display

Flat Routing Protocol

Flatbed Scanner

Flexible Organic Light-Emitting Diode (FOLED)

Flexible Single-Master Operation (FSMO)

Flexible Transistor

Flight Simulator

Floating-Point Unit (FPU)

Floppy Disk Controller (FDC)

Floppy Disk Drive (FDD)

Fluxgate Magnetometer

FM

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Footfall Analysis

Forefront Client Security

Forensic Animation

Forever Day Bug

Forking Proxy Server

Forklift Upgrade

Forms Processing

Formula And Recipe Management

Forward Compatible

Forward Engineering

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Forward Secret HTTPS

Fouled Up Beyond All Repair (FUBAR)

Fouled Up Beyond Belief (FUBB)

Foundation Framework

Founder's Syndrome

Four-Way Handshake

Four-Way Server

Fourier Transform

Fourth Generation (Programming) Language (4GL)

Fourth Generation Wireless (4G)

Fourth Normal Form (4NF)

FP

Fractal Dimension

Fractional Chief Information Officer (Fractional CIO)

Frame Check Sequence

Frame Synchronization

Frames Per Second (FPS)

Framework Class Library (FCL)

Fraud over Internet Protocol (FoIP)

Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS)

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Free Software Foundation (FSF)

Free Space Optics

Free To Play (F2P)

Freedom of Information

Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA)

Freedom Of Mobile Multimedia Access (FOMA)

Frequency Division Duplex (FDD)

Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA)

Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM)

Frequency Hopping - Code Division Multiple Access (FH-CDMA)

Frequency Hopping Multiple Access (FHMA)

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS)

Frequency Modulation (FM)

Frequency Modulation Synthesis (FM Synthesis)

Frequency-Shift Keying (FSK)

Freshness Factor

Friend Assembly

Friend-To-Friend (F2F)

Front and Back Ends

Front Office Application

Front-End Developer

Front-End Optimization (FEO)

Front-End System

Frontside Bus (FSB)

FS

Full Duplex (FDx)

Full Packaged Product (FPP)

Full Stack Developer

Full Virtualization

Full-Disk Encryption (FDE)

Full-Text Database

Full-Text Search

Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

Function Approximation

Function as a Service (FaaS)

Function Key (F Key)

Function Point (FP)

Functional Dependency

Functional Language

Functional Programming

Functional Reactive Programming (FRP)

Functional Requirement

Functional Specification (FS)

Functional Testing

Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)

Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF)

Future Date Testing

FW