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Furnace Mountain Furnace Mountain is a Zen Buddhist retreat center in Stanton, KY modeled after a traditional Korean Buddhist Temple located on 650 acres of woods in part of The Daniel Boone National Forest in The Red River Gorge area. Originally founded as part of Seung Sahn So Nim's The Kwan Um School of Zen as a center for practice, it is now unaffiliated with the school formally and the current abbot is Zen Master Dae Gak.
Furnace, Carmarthenshire Furnace (or Welsh Ffwrnes) is a village and an area of the town of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire, WalesCarmarthenshire County Council: Area and density of Community Wards. Furnace is named after the furnace built by Alexander Raby before the village was actually established.
Furnerius (crater) Furnerius is a large lunar crater located in the southeast part of the Moon, in the area close to the southwestern limb. Because of its location, the crater appears oval in shape due to foreshortening but is actually nearly circular.
Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness Furness College is a college of further education in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It provides a wide range of vocational education and training to over 16s, notably working with BAE Systems to train apprentices for their shipyard in Barrow.
Furness Fells The Furness Fells are those hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. Historically part of Lancashire, the Furness Fells or High Furness is the name given to the upland part of Furness, that is, that part of Furness lying north of the line between Ulverston and Ireleth.
Furness General Hospital Furness General Hospital, opened in 1984, is a hospital that services Barrow-in-Furness and the surrounding areas in Furness, Cumbria, England. It is owned and operated by the British National Health Service (NHS).
Furness Line The Furness Line runs from Barrow-in-Furness to Ulverston and Grange-over-Sands, connecting with the West Coast Main Line at Carnforth. Along with the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs north from Barrow to Whitehaven, Workington and Carlisle, it is considered one of the most scenic routes in England.
Furniture Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods.
Furniture music Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement (sometimes more literally translated as furnishing music), is background music originally played by live performers. The term was coined by Erik Satie, apparently in 1917, that is a few years before muzak was invented - this term rather indicating background music from recorded resources.
Furniture Row Furniture Row Companies is a group of specialty home furnishings, mattress and linens stores with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and stores in 31 states. It operates four franchises: Sofa Mart, Oak Express, Denver Mattress, and Bedroom Expressions.
Furongian The Furongian (which represented approximately the old notions of Late Cambrian, Merioneth, Croixian, or Potsdamian) is the third and final geological epoch of the Cambrian Period. It spans the time between 501 ± 2 Ma and 488.
Furring In light-frame construction, furring strips are long thin strips of wood used to make backing surfaces to support the finished surfaces in a room. Furring refers to the backing surface, the process of installing it, and may also refer to the strips themselves.
Furry convention A furry convention is a formal gathering of members of the furry fandom — people who are interested in the concept of non-human characters with human characteristics. These conventions provide a place for fans to meet, exchange ideas, transact business and engage in entertainment and recreation centered around this concept.
Furry Dance The Furry Dance (also known as the Floral Dance or Flora Dance) takes place in Helston, Cornwall, and is one of the oldest customs still practised in the British Isles. The dance is very well attended every year and people travel from all over the world to see it.
Furry fandom Furry fandom is a subculture distinguished by its enjoyment of anthropomorphic animal characters. Examples of anthropomorphism in the furry fandom include the attribution of human intelligence and facial expressions, speech, bipedalism or walking on two legs, and the wearing of clothes.
Furry lobster Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to the slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters. The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, whence the name furry lobster.
Furry Lewis Furry Lewis (March 6 1899- September 14 1981) was a blues guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given a new lease of recording life by the folk blues revival of the 1960s.
FurryMUCK FurryMUCK is one of the oldest and largest non-combat MUD-style games in existence. It was founded in 1990 as an online gathering place for furry fans to meet and socialize in a virtual role-playing environment.
Fursi Fursi is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 5, Fursi is located near the base of the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, and bordered on the south by Simurobi Gele'alo, on the west by the Amhara Region, on the north by Artuma, and on the east by the Awash River which separates it from the Administrative Zone 3.
Further and better particulars In pleading, further and better particulars refers to additional information required to provide sufficient accuracy with repsect to a set of pleaded facts in an earlier document. The party who believes that the facts are insufficiently pleaded will issue a request for further and better particulars of the relevant document.
Further and Higher Education Act 1992 The Further and Higher Education Acts 1992 made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education within the United Kingdom. The most visible result was to allow polytechnics to become universities.
Further Adventures of Doctor Syn The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn is the fourth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. It is a highly episodic series of adventures as Syn, in his guise as the Scarecrow outwits the king's agents and keeps his band of Dymchurch smugglers out of prison.
Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street is the sequel to The Family from One End Street. Eve Garnett originally wrote this book shortly after the previous instalment had been published in 1937, and it is clearly claimed at one point to be set in 1938, but the manuscript was badly damaged in a fire in 1941.
Further Austria Further Austria () was the collective name for the old possessions of the Habsburgs in Swabia (south-western Germany), Alsace and in Vorarlberg after the focus of the Habsburgs had moved to Austria. Sometimes the Tyrol was also included in definitions of Further Austria.
Further Confusion Further Confusion, or Furcon is an annual furry convention held in San Jose, California each January, celebrating the anthropomorphics genre or furry fandom, including charitable benefits, educational seminars, art shows, panels and general social activities. It was the first event sponsored by Anthropomorphic Arts and Education, Inc.
Further Definitions Further Definitions (1961) is a jazz album by Benny Carter and his orchestra, rereleased on CD in 1997 coupled with his follow-up album, the 1966 Additions to Further Definitions. The earlier album is Carter's best-known, recorded with an all-star line-up that included Coleman Hawkins, with whom Carter had recorded in Paris before World War II using the same configuration of instruments: four saxophones, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.
Further education Further education (often abbreviated "FE") is post-secondary, post-compulsory education (in addition to that received at secondary school). It may be at the same level, at a higher level, or at a lower level than secondary education, anything from basic training to Higher National and Foundation Degree.
Further Education and Training Awards Council The Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) is the authority that grants extra-university further education awards in Ireland, these awards have not yet been finalised but are been so with the oversight of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland.
Further Education Funding Council for England The Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC) was a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom which distributed funding to Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges in England between 1992 and 2001.
Further Seems Forever Further Seems Forever (often abbreviated FSF) was a band based out of Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. They are often viewed as a Christian band due to their long association with Tooth & Nail Records and performances at festivals such as Cornerstone, but this has been denied by the group Their style of music has been classified as alternative], [[emo, and indie rock.
Furthur Furthur was a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964, for $1,250 from Andre Hobson in Atherton, California. The bus was stripped down and remodeled inside and out for a psychedelic excursion across the country with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on board.
Furtwangen im Schwarzwald Furtwangen im Schwarzwald is a small city located in the Black Forest region of south western Germany. It belongs to the district (Kreis) of Schwarzwald-Baar along with the two more important cities of Villingen and Schwenningen.
Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences The Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU) (University of applied science Furtwangen), formerly the Fachhochschule Furtwangen (FHF) is a German university based in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany. As of 2005 it has 3556 students.
Furu al-Kafi Furu al-Kafi is one of the most authoritarian Shia hadith collections, containing eight volumes. It consists of books and sections on jurisprudence and is one of the authoritative reference books for deduction and independent reasoning (ijtihad) from Islamic law for the Shi'a jurisprudents (fiqh).
Furuhashi Sozaemon Furuhashi Sozaemon a famed swordsman during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan. Sozaemon, along with both Terao Magonojo, and his younger brother Terao Motomenosuke would be the legendary Miyamoto Musashi's three chosen successors.
Furuhata Ninzaburo Furuhata Ninzaburo (古畑任三éŽ) is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes (specials, really) in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright, Koki Mitani.
Furuset Forum The Furuset forum is a sports arena in East Oslo, Norway, with main focus on Ice Hockey, but also with regular indoor sports facilities currently utilized by Handball, Floorball and more. Located in Søren Bulls vei, it is within proximity of the T-Bane underground.
Fury (1936 film) Fury is a 1936 film noir film which tells the story of a decent man who descends into ruthlessness when he narrowly escapes a lynching and seeks retribution on the people of the small town who persecuted him. It stars Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan; and was loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder.
Fury (computer game) Fury is a 3D fantasy competitive massively multiplayer online role-playing game (CORPG) that is being developed by Auran and is slated for release in 2007. Fury's gameplay will focus on Player vs Player (PvP) combat.
Fury and Hecla Strait Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow channel of water located in Northern Canada between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula. It was discovered in 1822 by Arctic explorer William Edward Parry and was named for his ships: Fury and Hecla.
Fury from the Deep Fury from the Deep is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from March 16 to April 20, 1968. This story marks the final appearance of Deborah Watling as Victoria.
Fury in the Slaughterhouse Fury in the Slaughterhouse is a German rock band from Hanover formed in 1987 by brothers Kai Uwe Wingenfelder (vocals) and Thorsten Wingenfelder (guitar, vocals). The siblings then added Rainer Schumann (drums), Christof Stein (guitar), and Hannes Schafer (bass).
Fury3 Fury3 is a video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Microsoft in 1995 for Microsoft Windows. It is a direct sequel to Terminal Velocity, using the same game engine although redesigned to run natively under Windows 95.
Furyan The Furyans are a nearly extinct spiritual warrior race found in the movie The Chronicles of Riddick. A young Necromonger warrior, who later becomes Lord Marshal of the Necromongers, once was told by a seer that he would be killed by a Furyan, so he attacked the planet Furya, killing as many as he possibly could.
Furyondy In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Furyondy, properly known as the Kingdom of Furyondy, is a feudal kingdom of the Flanaess, and a successor state of Ferrond.
Fusajiro Yamauchi Fusajiro Yamauchi (山内 ćżć˛»éŽ Yamauchi FusajirĹŤ, November 22, 1859 – January 1940) was the founder of the company that is now known as Nintendo Company Limited. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan, and had a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who married Sekiryo Kaneda.
Fusako Sano is a Japanese girl who at age ten was kidnapped by Nobuyuki Sato (ä˝č—¤ĺ®ŁčˇŚ SatĹŤ Nobuyuki), and held in captivity for nine years and two months from November 13 1990 to January 28 2000. In Japan, the case is also known as the .
Fusako Shigenobu Fusako Shigenobu (重信 ćżĺ; Shigenobu Fusako; born on 3 September 1945 in Tokyo, Japan) led the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization. She was arrested by the Japanese police in 2000 after returning to Japan secretly.
Fusang Fusang (扶桑) is a country described by the Chinese Buddhist missionary Hui-Shen (慧深; Japanese pronunciation: Kei-shin) in CE 499, as a place 20,000 Chinese li (around 1,500 kilometers) beyond the sea to the east of China. Hui-Sheng went by ship to Fusang, and upon his return reported his findings to the Chinese Emperor. His descriptions are recorded in the 7th century Liang Shu (History of the Liang Dynasty) by Yao Silian.
Fusarium oxysporum Fusarium oxysporum, also referred to as Agent Green, is a fungus that causes Fusarium wilt disease in more than a hundred species of plants. It does so by colonizing the water-conducting vessels (xylem) of the plant.
Fusaro Lake Lake Fusaro is situated in the north of Naples, Italy, in the territory of the community of Bacoli. Separated from the sea by a narrow coastal strip, it is a very unusual ecosystem of great interest, characterized by a variety of vegetation which is specific to the region.
Fuscous Flycatcher The Fuscous Flycatcher, Cnemotriccus fuscatus is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, and the only member of the genus Cnemotriccus. It breeds from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, and on both Trinidad and Tobago.
Fuse (electrical) In electronics and electrical engineering a fuse, short for 'fusible link', is a type of overcurrent protection device. It has as its critical component: a metal wire or strip that will melt when heated by a prescribed electric current, opening the circuit of which it is a part, and so protecting the circuit from an overcurrent condition.
Fuse (emulator) The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) is an emulator of the 1980s home computer Sinclair Spectrum and its various clones for Unix, GP2X and Mac OS X. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence.
Fuse (explosives) In an explosive, pyrotechnic device or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function. In common usage, the word fuse is used indiscriminately, but when being specific (and in particular in a military context), fuse is used to mean a simple pyrotechnic detonating device, like the cord on a firecracker, whilst fuze is used to mean a more complicated device, such as a proximity fuze.
Fuse (hydraulic) In hydraulic systems, a fuse is a component which prevents the sudden loss of hydraulic fluid pressure. It is a safety feature, designed to allow systems to continue operating, or at least to not fail catastrophically, in the event of a system breach.
Fuse (radio program) Fuse is a Canadian radio program, which airs on CBC Radio One and on CBC Radio 3's satellite radio channel. Each week, the program pairs two (occasionally three) Canadian musicians for an hour-long concert in which the artists collaborate on a mix of material by all of the involved artists as well as cover songs.
Fuse Magazine Fuse Magazine was a music and arts magazine that ran from 1997 to 1998. Its staff was based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan: editor Joey Fester, art director Pablo Jonathan (aka Paul Hart), chief photographer Chris du Mond.
Fusebox (programming) Fusebox is a popular web development framework for ColdFusion and other web development languages. Fusebox provides Web application developers with a standardised, structured way of developing their applications using a relatively straightforward and easy to learn set of core files and encouraged conventions.
Fuseboxx Fuseboxx is a 5-piece OPM progressive rock/metal band (composed of 1 female member and 4 male members) based in Metro Manila, Philippines. They easily caught the attention of the whole country with their technical proficiency with their instruments and the capability to meld and incorporate different musical elements from a vast array of genres (such as classical, fusion, alternative etc.
Fused (Tony Iommi album) The 2005 album of the guitarist of Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi retains the services of his long-time friend, vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes aka "The Voice Of Rock" (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes/Thrall, Black Sabbath, among the many bands that he has sung for) and session drummer Kenny Aronoff.
Fused deposition modeling Fused deposition modeling, which is often referred to by its initials FDM, is a type of rapid prototyping or rapid manufacturing (RP) technology commonly used within engineering design. The technology was developed by S.
Fused glass Fused glass is a term used to describe glass that has been fired (heat-processed) in a kiln at a range of high temperatures from 593Âş C (1100ÂşF) to 816Âş C (1500ÂşF). There 3 main distinctions for temperature application and the resulting effect on the glass.
Fused Grid The Fused Grid represents the synthesis of two traditional North American approaches to residential neighborhood planning: the traditional, nineteenth-century grid, and the curvilinear pattern of looped streets and cul-de-sacs of modern suburbia. The goal of the fused grid is to provide a balance between vehicular and pedestrian movement, and to create safe, sociable streets and easy connectivity to community facilities.
Fusel alcohol Fusel alcohols, also sometimes called fusel oils, or potato oil in Europe, are higher order (more than two carbons) alcohols formed by fermentation and present in cider, mead, beer, wine, and spirits to varying degrees. The term fusel is German for “bad liquor.
Fuseproject Founded in 1999 by Yves BĂ©har, fuseproject is an award-winning San Francisco-based industrial design and branding firm. It works across a wide array of industries as diverse as beauty and fashion to furniture and technology.
Fushigi is Akina Nakamori's ninth album, released on August 11, 1986, and is something of a concept album in that ever track features distorted vocals of some kind (many unsuspecting members of the Japanese public at first thought this to be an unintentional mis-recording). Despite using unique vocal techniques foreign to her fanbase, the album proved to sell moderately well, debuting #1 with 464,000 copies and staying there for 3 weeks.
Fushigi no Kuni no Alice Alice in Wonderland (Japanese: ăµă—ăŽă®ĺ›˝ă®ă‚˘ăŞă‚ą ) is an anime adaptation of the novel Alice in Wonderland by the English author Lewis Carroll. which ran on the Japanese network NHK from March 26 1983 to October 10 1984.
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; Fushimi Castle, originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with its rebuilt towers and gold-lined tea-room; and Teradaya, a boat-lodging at which Sakamoto Ryoma was attacked and injured.
Fusibility Fusibility is the ease with which a material will melt. Materials such as solder requires a low melting point so that when heat is applied to a joint, the solder will melt before the materials being soldered, i.
Fusible core injection molding Fusible core injection molding or Lost Core injection molding is a specialized plastic injection molding process. It is used in the manufacture of molded components with cavities or undercuts, which would not be possible with tools having demoldable cores.
Fusible plug A fusible plug is a threaded metal plug, usually of bronze, brass or gunmetal, which has a tapered hole drilled completely through its length. This hole is sealed with a metal of low melting point, usually lead or tin.
Fusidic acid Fusidic acid is an antibiotic used particularly for eye and skin infections. It works by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, specifically by preventing the translocation of the elongation factor G (EF-G) from the ribosome, although it works only on gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus and Corynebacterium minutissimum.
Fusient Media Ventures Fusient Media Ventures is a venture capital group that collaborated with Eric Bischoff in an attempt to purchase World Championship Wrestling. However, after the AOL Time Warner merger, new management decided that professional wrestling was not good enough for its intended audience.
Fusil Gras mle 1874 The Fusil Gras mle 1874 used by the French Army was an adaptation to metallic cartridge of the Chassepot breechloading rifle by general (then captain) Basile Gras. This gun was an 11 mm caliber and used cartridges that weighed 25 grams.
Fusing Fusing is a type of manufacturing process for joining or terminating electrical magnet wire, that is coated with a varnish (film) type insulation, to itself or some type of electrical terminal, without prior removal of the insulation. During the fusing process, the varnish film insulation is vaporized automatically.
Fusion Australia Fusion Australia is an Australian, Christian, community-based organisation, which runs projects in many places in Australia and overseas. The training centre and national office is at Poatina, Tasmania, which is a village that was originally built for one of Tasmania's hydropower projects.
Fusion of horizons "Fusion of horizons" is a dialectical concept which results from the rejection of two alternatives: objectivism, whereby the objectification of the other is premissed on the forgetting of oneself; and absolute knowledge, according to which universal history can be articulated within a single horizon. Therefore, we exist neither in closed horizons, nor within a horizon that is unique.
Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats The Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats (Fusion des Sociaux-DĂ©mocrates HaĂŻtienne) is a political party in Haiti. In the presidential elections of 7 February 2006, its candidate Serge Gilles won 2,62 % of the popular vote.
Fusion of powers Fusion of Powers is a feature of parliamentary democracies, wherein the executive and legislative branches are intermingled. It is viewed as the opposite of a “separation of powers” found in so-called “presidential” democracies.
Fusion protein A fusion protein is a protein created through genetic engineering from two or more proteins/peptides. This is achieved by creating a fusion gene: removing the stop codon from the DNA sequence of the first protein, then appending the DNA sequence of the second protein in frame.
Fusion rocket A fusion rocket is a rocket that is driven by fusion power. The process of nuclear fusion is well understood and recent developments indicate this technology will be able to provide terrestial based power within 30 years (as of 2006).
Fusion rules In mathematics and theoretical physics, fusion rules are rules that determine the exact decomposition of the tensor product of two representations of a group into a direct sum of irreducible representations. The term is often used in the context of conformal field theory where the relevant group is generated by the Virasoro algebra, the relevant representations are the conformal families associated with a primary field and the tensor product is realized by operator product expansions.
Fusion Radio Scarborough Fusion Radio is an Internet radio station broadcasting from University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) in Scarborough, Ontario. It is run by students of UTSC and members of the Scarborough community, and is owned and operated by Scarborough Campus Community Radio Incorporated (SCCR Inc.
Fusion Radio Chicago Fusion Radio Chicago is an internet dance radio station based in Chicago, which resulted from a merger between former stations Pure Pulse Radio and Energy Internet Radio. Pure Pulse Radio was the result of a re-branding from Moodance.
Fusion Saga In the anime Dragon Ball Z, the Fusion Saga deals with the Fusion dance technique, the KaiĂ´ Potara Earring Fusion, and the emergence of Gotenks and Vegetto, all during the battle between the Z Warriors and their most formidable foe, the ruthless Buu. This saga aired in Japan in 1994 and 1995.
Fusion tree A fusion tree is a tree data structure that implements an associative array with integer keys up to a fixed size; by exploiting the constant-time machine word multiplication operation available on many real processors, it is able to achieve all operations in
Fusional language A fusional language (also called inflecting language) is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its tendency to "squish together" many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to segment.
FusionAurora FusionAurora is a corporation that is dedicated to helping others, unlike many corporations thats main idea is to create money, FusionAurora's profits go into funding projects, both locally in the UK and in 40 separate countries. FusionAurora helps local projects, educational and charity related as well as some from around the globe.
Fusionism (politics) Fusionism is an American political term for the combination or "fusion" of libertarians and traditional conservatives in the American conservative movement. The strategy was advocated by National Review editor Frank Meyer, who believed that the holders of various disparate conservative beliefs should work together to combat the threats of Cold War communism, increasing government power domestically, and what seen as a decline in civil society (especially during the Great Society era of the mid-1960s).
Fusitriton oregonensis The Oregon Hairy Triton (Fusitriton oregonensis) is a carnivorous marine snail native to the Northwestern coast of North America. The shells are found from Alaska to California, as well as northern Japan, and often wash up on the coast at high tide.
Fusker "Fusker" can be a verb, a noun that describes a technology for the web, or a noun that describes the output web page of that technology. As a verb, "to fusker" is to identify a range of images to a fusker script that returns a web page that displays all of the images within the range.
Fusobacterium Fusobacterium is a genus of filamentous, anaerobic, Gram-negative bacteria, similar to Bacteroides. Fusobacterium contribute to several human diseases, including periodontal diseases, Lemierre's syndrome, and tropical skin ulcers.
Fusobacterium necrophorum Fusobacterium necrophorum is the causative organism of Lemierre's disease and appears to cause approximately 10% of acute sort throats and 21% of persistent or recurrent sore throats, (the remainder being Group A streptococci or viruses)
Fusor (astronomy) A fusor is a term proposed to the IAU by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, to help clarify the nomenclature of celestial bodies. Under his definition a fusor would be "an object that achieves core fusion during its lifetime.
Fusspils 11 Fusspils 11 is the name of a German aggrotech musical project collaboration of Ravenous and Funker Vogt members Gerrit Thomas, Jens Kaestel, Björn Böttcher, Tim Fockenbrock, Kai Schmidt, and Peggy Johanson. Their two albums to date have been completely in German.
Fusta The Fusta or Fuste (in English sometimes also called foist or galliot, in Turkish kalita, in Italian galiota) was a narrow, light and fast ship with shallow draft, powered by both oars and sail -– in essence a small galley. It typically had 12 to 18 two-man rowing benches on each side, a single mast with a lateen (triangular) sail, and usually carried two or three guns.
Fustanella Fustanella (for spelling in various languages, see chart below) is a skirt-like garment worn by men in the Balkans until the 19th century and is frequently identified with the elite Greek ceremonial unit of Presidential Guard, the Evzones.
Fusulinid The fusulinids are an extinct group of foraminiferan protozoa. They produce calcareous shells, which are of fine calcite granules packed closely together; this distinguishes them from other calcareous forams, where the test is usually hyaline.
Fusuma In Japanese architecture, fusuma (襖) are opaque vertical rectangles which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about 3 feet wide by 6 feet tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are two or three centimetres thick.
Furnace, Carmarthenshire Furnace (or Welsh Ffwrnes) is a village and an area of the town of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire, WalesCarmarthenshire County Council: Area and density of Community Wards. Furnace is named after the furnace built by Alexander Raby before the village was actually established.
Furnerius (crater) Furnerius is a large lunar crater located in the southeast part of the Moon, in the area close to the southwestern limb. Because of its location, the crater appears oval in shape due to foreshortening but is actually nearly circular.
Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness Furness College is a college of further education in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It provides a wide range of vocational education and training to over 16s, notably working with BAE Systems to train apprentices for their shipyard in Barrow.
Furness Fells The Furness Fells are those hills and mountains in the Furness region of Cumbria, England. Historically part of Lancashire, the Furness Fells or High Furness is the name given to the upland part of Furness, that is, that part of Furness lying north of the line between Ulverston and Ireleth.
Furness General Hospital Furness General Hospital, opened in 1984, is a hospital that services Barrow-in-Furness and the surrounding areas in Furness, Cumbria, England. It is owned and operated by the British National Health Service (NHS).
Furness Line The Furness Line runs from Barrow-in-Furness to Ulverston and Grange-over-Sands, connecting with the West Coast Main Line at Carnforth. Along with the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs north from Barrow to Whitehaven, Workington and Carlisle, it is considered one of the most scenic routes in England.
Furniture Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which may support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods.
Furniture music Furniture music, or in French musique d’ameublement (sometimes more literally translated as furnishing music), is background music originally played by live performers. The term was coined by Erik Satie, apparently in 1917, that is a few years before muzak was invented - this term rather indicating background music from recorded resources.
Furniture Row Furniture Row Companies is a group of specialty home furnishings, mattress and linens stores with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and stores in 31 states. It operates four franchises: Sofa Mart, Oak Express, Denver Mattress, and Bedroom Expressions.
Furongian The Furongian (which represented approximately the old notions of Late Cambrian, Merioneth, Croixian, or Potsdamian) is the third and final geological epoch of the Cambrian Period. It spans the time between 501 ± 2 Ma and 488.
Furring In light-frame construction, furring strips are long thin strips of wood used to make backing surfaces to support the finished surfaces in a room. Furring refers to the backing surface, the process of installing it, and may also refer to the strips themselves.
Furry convention A furry convention is a formal gathering of members of the furry fandom — people who are interested in the concept of non-human characters with human characteristics. These conventions provide a place for fans to meet, exchange ideas, transact business and engage in entertainment and recreation centered around this concept.
Furry Dance The Furry Dance (also known as the Floral Dance or Flora Dance) takes place in Helston, Cornwall, and is one of the oldest customs still practised in the British Isles. The dance is very well attended every year and people travel from all over the world to see it.
Furry fandom Furry fandom is a subculture distinguished by its enjoyment of anthropomorphic animal characters. Examples of anthropomorphism in the furry fandom include the attribution of human intelligence and facial expressions, speech, bipedalism or walking on two legs, and the wearing of clothes.
Furry lobster Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to the slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters. The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, whence the name furry lobster.
Furry Lewis Furry Lewis (March 6 1899- September 14 1981) was a blues guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee. He was one of the first of the old-time blues musicians of the 1920s to be brought out of retirement and given a new lease of recording life by the folk blues revival of the 1960s.
FurryMUCK FurryMUCK is one of the oldest and largest non-combat MUD-style games in existence. It was founded in 1990 as an online gathering place for furry fans to meet and socialize in a virtual role-playing environment.
Fursi Fursi is one of the 31 woredas in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Administrative Zone 5, Fursi is located near the base of the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian highlands, and bordered on the south by Simurobi Gele'alo, on the west by the Amhara Region, on the north by Artuma, and on the east by the Awash River which separates it from the Administrative Zone 3.
Further and better particulars In pleading, further and better particulars refers to additional information required to provide sufficient accuracy with repsect to a set of pleaded facts in an earlier document. The party who believes that the facts are insufficiently pleaded will issue a request for further and better particulars of the relevant document.
Further and Higher Education Act 1992 The Further and Higher Education Acts 1992 made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education within the United Kingdom. The most visible result was to allow polytechnics to become universities.
Further Adventures of Doctor Syn The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn is the fourth in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike. It is a highly episodic series of adventures as Syn, in his guise as the Scarecrow outwits the king's agents and keeps his band of Dymchurch smugglers out of prison.
Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street Further Adventures of the Family from One End Street is the sequel to The Family from One End Street. Eve Garnett originally wrote this book shortly after the previous instalment had been published in 1937, and it is clearly claimed at one point to be set in 1938, but the manuscript was badly damaged in a fire in 1941.
Further Austria Further Austria () was the collective name for the old possessions of the Habsburgs in Swabia (south-western Germany), Alsace and in Vorarlberg after the focus of the Habsburgs had moved to Austria. Sometimes the Tyrol was also included in definitions of Further Austria.
Further Confusion Further Confusion, or Furcon is an annual furry convention held in San Jose, California each January, celebrating the anthropomorphics genre or furry fandom, including charitable benefits, educational seminars, art shows, panels and general social activities. It was the first event sponsored by Anthropomorphic Arts and Education, Inc.
Further Definitions Further Definitions (1961) is a jazz album by Benny Carter and his orchestra, rereleased on CD in 1997 coupled with his follow-up album, the 1966 Additions to Further Definitions. The earlier album is Carter's best-known, recorded with an all-star line-up that included Coleman Hawkins, with whom Carter had recorded in Paris before World War II using the same configuration of instruments: four saxophones, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.
Further education Further education (often abbreviated "FE") is post-secondary, post-compulsory education (in addition to that received at secondary school). It may be at the same level, at a higher level, or at a lower level than secondary education, anything from basic training to Higher National and Foundation Degree.
Further Education and Training Awards Council The Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) is the authority that grants extra-university further education awards in Ireland, these awards have not yet been finalised but are been so with the oversight of the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland.
Further Education Funding Council for England The Further Education Funding Council for England (FEFC) was a non-departmental public body of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom which distributed funding to Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges in England between 1992 and 2001.
Further Seems Forever Further Seems Forever (often abbreviated FSF) was a band based out of Pompano Beach, Florida, United States. They are often viewed as a Christian band due to their long association with Tooth & Nail Records and performances at festivals such as Cornerstone, but this has been denied by the group Their style of music has been classified as alternative], [[emo, and indie rock.
Furthur Furthur was a 1939 International Harvester school bus purchased by author Ken Kesey in 1964, for $1,250 from Andre Hobson in Atherton, California. The bus was stripped down and remodeled inside and out for a psychedelic excursion across the country with Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on board.
Furtwangen im Schwarzwald Furtwangen im Schwarzwald is a small city located in the Black Forest region of south western Germany. It belongs to the district (Kreis) of Schwarzwald-Baar along with the two more important cities of Villingen and Schwenningen.
Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences The Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU) (University of applied science Furtwangen), formerly the Fachhochschule Furtwangen (FHF) is a German university based in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Baden-WĂĽrttemberg, Germany. As of 2005 it has 3556 students.
Furu al-Kafi Furu al-Kafi is one of the most authoritarian Shia hadith collections, containing eight volumes. It consists of books and sections on jurisprudence and is one of the authoritative reference books for deduction and independent reasoning (ijtihad) from Islamic law for the Shi'a jurisprudents (fiqh).
Furuhashi Sozaemon Furuhashi Sozaemon a famed swordsman during the Edo period (17th century) of Japan. Sozaemon, along with both Terao Magonojo, and his younger brother Terao Motomenosuke would be the legendary Miyamoto Musashi's three chosen successors.
Furuhata Ninzaburo Furuhata Ninzaburo (古畑任三éŽ) is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from 1994 until its final episodes (specials, really) in 2006. It was written by Japanese playwright, Koki Mitani.
Furuset Forum The Furuset forum is a sports arena in East Oslo, Norway, with main focus on Ice Hockey, but also with regular indoor sports facilities currently utilized by Handball, Floorball and more. Located in Søren Bulls vei, it is within proximity of the T-Bane underground.
Fury (1936 film) Fury is a 1936 film noir film which tells the story of a decent man who descends into ruthlessness when he narrowly escapes a lynching and seeks retribution on the people of the small town who persecuted him. It stars Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan; and was loosely based on the events surrounding the Brooke Hart murder.
Fury (computer game) Fury is a 3D fantasy competitive massively multiplayer online role-playing game (CORPG) that is being developed by Auran and is slated for release in 2007. Fury's gameplay will focus on Player vs Player (PvP) combat.
Fury and Hecla Strait Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow channel of water located in Northern Canada between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula. It was discovered in 1822 by Arctic explorer William Edward Parry and was named for his ships: Fury and Hecla.
Fury from the Deep Fury from the Deep is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from March 16 to April 20, 1968. This story marks the final appearance of Deborah Watling as Victoria.
Fury in the Slaughterhouse Fury in the Slaughterhouse is a German rock band from Hanover formed in 1987 by brothers Kai Uwe Wingenfelder (vocals) and Thorsten Wingenfelder (guitar, vocals). The siblings then added Rainer Schumann (drums), Christof Stein (guitar), and Hannes Schafer (bass).
Fury3 Fury3 is a video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by Microsoft in 1995 for Microsoft Windows. It is a direct sequel to Terminal Velocity, using the same game engine although redesigned to run natively under Windows 95.
Furyan The Furyans are a nearly extinct spiritual warrior race found in the movie The Chronicles of Riddick. A young Necromonger warrior, who later becomes Lord Marshal of the Necromongers, once was told by a seer that he would be killed by a Furyan, so he attacked the planet Furya, killing as many as he possibly could.
Furyondy In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Furyondy, properly known as the Kingdom of Furyondy, is a feudal kingdom of the Flanaess, and a successor state of Ferrond.
Fusajiro Yamauchi Fusajiro Yamauchi (山内 ćżć˛»éŽ Yamauchi FusajirĹŤ, November 22, 1859 – January 1940) was the founder of the company that is now known as Nintendo Company Limited. Yamauchi lived in Kyoto, Japan, and had a daughter, Tei Yamauchi, who married Sekiryo Kaneda.
Fusako Sano is a Japanese girl who at age ten was kidnapped by Nobuyuki Sato (ä˝č—¤ĺ®ŁčˇŚ SatĹŤ Nobuyuki), and held in captivity for nine years and two months from November 13 1990 to January 28 2000. In Japan, the case is also known as the .
Fusako Shigenobu Fusako Shigenobu (重信 ćżĺ; Shigenobu Fusako; born on 3 September 1945 in Tokyo, Japan) led the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization. She was arrested by the Japanese police in 2000 after returning to Japan secretly.
Fusang Fusang (扶桑) is a country described by the Chinese Buddhist missionary Hui-Shen (慧深; Japanese pronunciation: Kei-shin) in CE 499, as a place 20,000 Chinese li (around 1,500 kilometers) beyond the sea to the east of China. Hui-Sheng went by ship to Fusang, and upon his return reported his findings to the Chinese Emperor. His descriptions are recorded in the 7th century Liang Shu (History of the Liang Dynasty) by Yao Silian.
Fusarium oxysporum Fusarium oxysporum, also referred to as Agent Green, is a fungus that causes Fusarium wilt disease in more than a hundred species of plants. It does so by colonizing the water-conducting vessels (xylem) of the plant.
Fusaro Lake Lake Fusaro is situated in the north of Naples, Italy, in the territory of the community of Bacoli. Separated from the sea by a narrow coastal strip, it is a very unusual ecosystem of great interest, characterized by a variety of vegetation which is specific to the region.
Fuscous Flycatcher The Fuscous Flycatcher, Cnemotriccus fuscatus is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family, and the only member of the genus Cnemotriccus. It breeds from Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina, and on both Trinidad and Tobago.
Fuse (electrical) In electronics and electrical engineering a fuse, short for 'fusible link', is a type of overcurrent protection device. It has as its critical component: a metal wire or strip that will melt when heated by a prescribed electric current, opening the circuit of which it is a part, and so protecting the circuit from an overcurrent condition.
Fuse (emulator) The Free Unix Spectrum Emulator (Fuse) is an emulator of the 1980s home computer Sinclair Spectrum and its various clones for Unix, GP2X and Mac OS X. VICE is free software, released under the GNU General Public Licence.
Fuse (explosives) In an explosive, pyrotechnic device or military munition, a fuse (or fuze) is the part of the device that initiates function. In common usage, the word fuse is used indiscriminately, but when being specific (and in particular in a military context), fuse is used to mean a simple pyrotechnic detonating device, like the cord on a firecracker, whilst fuze is used to mean a more complicated device, such as a proximity fuze.
Fuse (hydraulic) In hydraulic systems, a fuse is a component which prevents the sudden loss of hydraulic fluid pressure. It is a safety feature, designed to allow systems to continue operating, or at least to not fail catastrophically, in the event of a system breach.
Fuse (radio program) Fuse is a Canadian radio program, which airs on CBC Radio One and on CBC Radio 3's satellite radio channel. Each week, the program pairs two (occasionally three) Canadian musicians for an hour-long concert in which the artists collaborate on a mix of material by all of the involved artists as well as cover songs.
Fuse Magazine Fuse Magazine was a music and arts magazine that ran from 1997 to 1998. Its staff was based out of Grand Rapids, Michigan: editor Joey Fester, art director Pablo Jonathan (aka Paul Hart), chief photographer Chris du Mond.
Fusebox (programming) Fusebox is a popular web development framework for ColdFusion and other web development languages. Fusebox provides Web application developers with a standardised, structured way of developing their applications using a relatively straightforward and easy to learn set of core files and encouraged conventions.
Fuseboxx Fuseboxx is a 5-piece OPM progressive rock/metal band (composed of 1 female member and 4 male members) based in Metro Manila, Philippines. They easily caught the attention of the whole country with their technical proficiency with their instruments and the capability to meld and incorporate different musical elements from a vast array of genres (such as classical, fusion, alternative etc.
Fused (Tony Iommi album) The 2005 album of the guitarist of Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi retains the services of his long-time friend, vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes aka "The Voice Of Rock" (Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes/Thrall, Black Sabbath, among the many bands that he has sung for) and session drummer Kenny Aronoff.
Fused deposition modeling Fused deposition modeling, which is often referred to by its initials FDM, is a type of rapid prototyping or rapid manufacturing (RP) technology commonly used within engineering design. The technology was developed by S.
Fused glass Fused glass is a term used to describe glass that has been fired (heat-processed) in a kiln at a range of high temperatures from 593Âş C (1100ÂşF) to 816Âş C (1500ÂşF). There 3 main distinctions for temperature application and the resulting effect on the glass.
Fused Grid The Fused Grid represents the synthesis of two traditional North American approaches to residential neighborhood planning: the traditional, nineteenth-century grid, and the curvilinear pattern of looped streets and cul-de-sacs of modern suburbia. The goal of the fused grid is to provide a balance between vehicular and pedestrian movement, and to create safe, sociable streets and easy connectivity to community facilities.
Fusel alcohol Fusel alcohols, also sometimes called fusel oils, or potato oil in Europe, are higher order (more than two carbons) alcohols formed by fermentation and present in cider, mead, beer, wine, and spirits to varying degrees. The term fusel is German for “bad liquor.
Fuseproject Founded in 1999 by Yves BĂ©har, fuseproject is an award-winning San Francisco-based industrial design and branding firm. It works across a wide array of industries as diverse as beauty and fashion to furniture and technology.
Fushigi is Akina Nakamori's ninth album, released on August 11, 1986, and is something of a concept album in that ever track features distorted vocals of some kind (many unsuspecting members of the Japanese public at first thought this to be an unintentional mis-recording). Despite using unique vocal techniques foreign to her fanbase, the album proved to sell moderately well, debuting #1 with 464,000 copies and staying there for 3 weeks.
Fushigi no Kuni no Alice Alice in Wonderland (Japanese: ăµă—ăŽă®ĺ›˝ă®ă‚˘ăŞă‚ą ) is an anime adaptation of the novel Alice in Wonderland by the English author Lewis Carroll. which ran on the Japanese network NHK from March 26 1983 to October 10 1984.
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Famous places in Fushimi include the Fushimi Inari Shrine, with thousands of torii lining the paths up and down a mountain; Fushimi Castle, originally built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with its rebuilt towers and gold-lined tea-room; and Teradaya, a boat-lodging at which Sakamoto Ryoma was attacked and injured.
Fusibility Fusibility is the ease with which a material will melt. Materials such as solder requires a low melting point so that when heat is applied to a joint, the solder will melt before the materials being soldered, i.
Fusible core injection molding Fusible core injection molding or Lost Core injection molding is a specialized plastic injection molding process. It is used in the manufacture of molded components with cavities or undercuts, which would not be possible with tools having demoldable cores.
Fusible plug A fusible plug is a threaded metal plug, usually of bronze, brass or gunmetal, which has a tapered hole drilled completely through its length. This hole is sealed with a metal of low melting point, usually lead or tin.
Fusidic acid Fusidic acid is an antibiotic used particularly for eye and skin infections. It works by interfering with bacterial protein synthesis, specifically by preventing the translocation of the elongation factor G (EF-G) from the ribosome, although it works only on gram-positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus and Corynebacterium minutissimum.
Fusient Media Ventures Fusient Media Ventures is a venture capital group that collaborated with Eric Bischoff in an attempt to purchase World Championship Wrestling. However, after the AOL Time Warner merger, new management decided that professional wrestling was not good enough for its intended audience.
Fusil Gras mle 1874 The Fusil Gras mle 1874 used by the French Army was an adaptation to metallic cartridge of the Chassepot breechloading rifle by general (then captain) Basile Gras. This gun was an 11 mm caliber and used cartridges that weighed 25 grams.
Fusing Fusing is a type of manufacturing process for joining or terminating electrical magnet wire, that is coated with a varnish (film) type insulation, to itself or some type of electrical terminal, without prior removal of the insulation. During the fusing process, the varnish film insulation is vaporized automatically.
Fusion Australia Fusion Australia is an Australian, Christian, community-based organisation, which runs projects in many places in Australia and overseas. The training centre and national office is at Poatina, Tasmania, which is a village that was originally built for one of Tasmania's hydropower projects.
Fusion of horizons "Fusion of horizons" is a dialectical concept which results from the rejection of two alternatives: objectivism, whereby the objectification of the other is premissed on the forgetting of oneself; and absolute knowledge, according to which universal history can be articulated within a single horizon. Therefore, we exist neither in closed horizons, nor within a horizon that is unique.
Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats The Fusion of Haitian Social Democrats (Fusion des Sociaux-DĂ©mocrates HaĂŻtienne) is a political party in Haiti. In the presidential elections of 7 February 2006, its candidate Serge Gilles won 2,62 % of the popular vote.
Fusion of powers Fusion of Powers is a feature of parliamentary democracies, wherein the executive and legislative branches are intermingled. It is viewed as the opposite of a “separation of powers” found in so-called “presidential” democracies.
Fusion protein A fusion protein is a protein created through genetic engineering from two or more proteins/peptides. This is achieved by creating a fusion gene: removing the stop codon from the DNA sequence of the first protein, then appending the DNA sequence of the second protein in frame.
Fusion rocket A fusion rocket is a rocket that is driven by fusion power. The process of nuclear fusion is well understood and recent developments indicate this technology will be able to provide terrestial based power within 30 years (as of 2006).
Fusion rules In mathematics and theoretical physics, fusion rules are rules that determine the exact decomposition of the tensor product of two representations of a group into a direct sum of irreducible representations. The term is often used in the context of conformal field theory where the relevant group is generated by the Virasoro algebra, the relevant representations are the conformal families associated with a primary field and the tensor product is realized by operator product expansions.
Fusion Radio Scarborough Fusion Radio is an Internet radio station broadcasting from University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) in Scarborough, Ontario. It is run by students of UTSC and members of the Scarborough community, and is owned and operated by Scarborough Campus Community Radio Incorporated (SCCR Inc.
Fusion Radio Chicago Fusion Radio Chicago is an internet dance radio station based in Chicago, which resulted from a merger between former stations Pure Pulse Radio and Energy Internet Radio. Pure Pulse Radio was the result of a re-branding from Moodance.
Fusion Saga In the anime Dragon Ball Z, the Fusion Saga deals with the Fusion dance technique, the KaiĂ´ Potara Earring Fusion, and the emergence of Gotenks and Vegetto, all during the battle between the Z Warriors and their most formidable foe, the ruthless Buu. This saga aired in Japan in 1994 and 1995.
Fusion tree A fusion tree is a tree data structure that implements an associative array with integer keys up to a fixed size; by exploiting the constant-time machine word multiplication operation available on many real processors, it is able to achieve all operations in
Fusional language A fusional language (also called inflecting language) is a type of synthetic language, distinguished from agglutinative languages by its tendency to "squish together" many morphemes in a way which can be difficult to segment.
FusionAurora FusionAurora is a corporation that is dedicated to helping others, unlike many corporations thats main idea is to create money, FusionAurora's profits go into funding projects, both locally in the UK and in 40 separate countries. FusionAurora helps local projects, educational and charity related as well as some from around the globe.
Fusionism (politics) Fusionism is an American political term for the combination or "fusion" of libertarians and traditional conservatives in the American conservative movement. The strategy was advocated by National Review editor Frank Meyer, who believed that the holders of various disparate conservative beliefs should work together to combat the threats of Cold War communism, increasing government power domestically, and what seen as a decline in civil society (especially during the Great Society era of the mid-1960s).
Fusitriton oregonensis The Oregon Hairy Triton (Fusitriton oregonensis) is a carnivorous marine snail native to the Northwestern coast of North America. The shells are found from Alaska to California, as well as northern Japan, and often wash up on the coast at high tide.
Fusker "Fusker" can be a verb, a noun that describes a technology for the web, or a noun that describes the output web page of that technology. As a verb, "to fusker" is to identify a range of images to a fusker script that returns a web page that displays all of the images within the range.
Fusobacterium Fusobacterium is a genus of filamentous, anaerobic, Gram-negative bacteria, similar to Bacteroides. Fusobacterium contribute to several human diseases, including periodontal diseases, Lemierre's syndrome, and tropical skin ulcers.
Fusobacterium necrophorum Fusobacterium necrophorum is the causative organism of Lemierre's disease and appears to cause approximately 10% of acute sort throats and 21% of persistent or recurrent sore throats, (the remainder being Group A streptococci or viruses)
Fusor (astronomy) A fusor is a term proposed to the IAU by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, to help clarify the nomenclature of celestial bodies. Under his definition a fusor would be "an object that achieves core fusion during its lifetime.
Fusspils 11 Fusspils 11 is the name of a German aggrotech musical project collaboration of Ravenous and Funker Vogt members Gerrit Thomas, Jens Kaestel, Björn Böttcher, Tim Fockenbrock, Kai Schmidt, and Peggy Johanson. Their two albums to date have been completely in German.
Fusta The Fusta or Fuste (in English sometimes also called foist or galliot, in Turkish kalita, in Italian galiota) was a narrow, light and fast ship with shallow draft, powered by both oars and sail -– in essence a small galley. It typically had 12 to 18 two-man rowing benches on each side, a single mast with a lateen (triangular) sail, and usually carried two or three guns.
Fustanella Fustanella (for spelling in various languages, see chart below) is a skirt-like garment worn by men in the Balkans until the 19th century and is frequently identified with the elite Greek ceremonial unit of Presidential Guard, the Evzones.
Fusulinid The fusulinids are an extinct group of foraminiferan protozoa. They produce calcareous shells, which are of fine calcite granules packed closely together; this distinguishes them from other calcareous forams, where the test is usually hyaline.
Fusuma In Japanese architecture, fusuma (襖) are opaque vertical rectangles which can slide from side to side to redefine spaces within a room, or act as doors. They typically measure about 3 feet wide by 6 feet tall, the same size as a tatami mat, and are two or three centimetres thick.
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