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Fever Pitch (comics) Fever Pitch is a fictional villain created by Marvel comics as a member of the second incarnation of the mutant terrorist organization Gene Nation and later as a member of X-Corps. He was one of the few Gene Nationals to make a sustained appearance outside of the group besides the various leaders: Marrow, Mikhail Rasputin, Callisto, and Dark Beast.
Fevertech Influenced in childhood and adolescence by progressive rock, new wave, and hip-hop, Fevertech began programming and producing groove-heavy electronic music in 1999, at a relatively late age, 32, with minimal experience as an amateur party DJ. His early works were sample-driven in the spirit of the 90s big beat era, peppered with electro and hip-hop influences similar to the works of Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and The Chemical Brothers.
Fevillea Fevillea (or Feuillea) is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae, the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin family. Some Google references suggest that there is only one member of this genus, Fevillea cordofolia (Antidote Vine).
Fewell Fewell is a Scottish name derived from the Mediæval word for "people". It has been a family name since the late fifth century, though the Saxon invasions mixed the native Scottish bloodline with conquering noblemen in 1200.
Fewer/less In traditional prescriptive grammar 'less' is the comparative used when speaking of a continuous quantity that is not numerically quantifiable (that is, with mass nouns). 'Fewer', on the other hand, is used of discrete quantity and numerically quantifiable quantity (or count nouns).
Fexofenadine Fexofenadine hydrochloride (brand names include Allegra® and Telfast®) is an antihistamine drug used in the treatment of hayfever and similar allergy symptoms. It was developed as a successor of and alternative to terfenadine, an antihistamine with potentially fatal contraindications.
Fey (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Fey is a type of creature, or "creature type". Fey are usually humanoid in form, and are typified as having supernatural abilities and a connection to nature or to some other force or place.
Fey Truscott-Sade Fey Truscott-Sade, also known as Fey or Feyde, is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She was a companion of the Eighth Doctor.
Feynman diagram A Feynman diagram is a method for performing calculations in quantum field theory, invented by American physicist Richard Feynman. They are also (rarely) referred to as StĂĽckelberg diagrams or (for a subset of special cases) penguin diagrams.
Feynman point The Feynman Point is the sequence of six 9s which begins at the 762nd decimal place of π. It is named after physicist Richard Feynman, who once stated during a lecture he would like to memorize the digits of π until that point, so he could recite them and quip "nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on.
Feynman sprinkler A Feynman sprinkler, Feynman inverse sprinkler or most correctly reverse sprinkler began as a thought experiment in explaining the workings of the reverse of a typical rotary lawn sprinkler. This experiment is commonly associated with and named after Richard Feynman though he did not come up with the problem or ever publish a solution to it, only help popularize it in Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun is a book based on a lecture by Richard Feynman. Restoration of the lecture notes and conversion into book form was undertaken by Caltech physicist David L.
Feynman-Kac formula The Feynman-Kac formula, named after Richard Feynman and Mark Kac, establishes a link between partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic processes. It offers a method of solving certain PDEs by simulating random paths of a stochastic process.
Feza Gürsey Institute Feza Gürsey Institute is a joint institute of Boğaziçi University and TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) on physics research, founded in 1983 by Erdal İnönü with the name Research Institute for Basic Sciences. It now continues as the Feza Gürsey Institute, having been renamed in honor of Feza Gürsey, a distinguished Turkish physicist.
Fezzan Fezzan (Arabic: Ůزان transliterated: Fuzzan) (Latin name Phasania) is a south-eastern desert region and an ex Province or State ("muhafazah" or "wilayah") of Libya (alongside Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in an old system of administrative divisions which was abolished in the early 1970s] in favour of a system of smaller-size [[municipalities|municipality or "baladiyat" (singular "baladiyah"). The "Baladiyat"-system was subsequently changed many times and has lately become "Sha'biyat"-system.
FE-Schrift FE-Schrift or fälschungserschwerende Schrift (falsification-hindering script) has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates in Germany since November, 2000. It was designed for the German government in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Fraction terrorist activities, when it was discovered that with the then standard font for vehicle registration plates (DIN 1451 road-sign font) it was particularly easy to modify letters by applying a small amount of black paint or black insulating tape.
FEAL In cryptography, FEAL (the Fast Data Encipherment Algorithm) is a block cipher proposed as an alternative to the Data Encryption Standard (DES), and designed to be much faster in software. The Feistel based algorithm was first published in 1987 by Akihiro Shimizu and Shoji Miyaguchi from NTT.
FEAPI Audio analysis using machine learning methods for classification begins with an extraction of suitable features. Well-known methods for extraction of audio features are often re-implemented by many researchers working in the field of audio analysis.
FEBO FEBO (IPA pronunciation: ) is a chain of Dutch walk-up fast food restaurants of the automatiek type. Founded in 1941 in Amsterdam, FEBO is most notable for this automatiek format: a small counter is available for purchasing french fries, beverages, and grilled-to-order hamburgers.
FECOMZ FECOMZ is an acronym for "Forward Echelon, Communications Zone". FECOMZ was a headquarters, organized in WW2 and authorized by the Allied Supreme Commander, to organize and control Services of Supply for the invasion forces after D-Day.
FEDA FEDA is short for Further Education Development Agency, an organisation that was established in 1995 to support the Further Education community in England, as a result of a merger between the Further Education Unit and the Staff College.
FEKO FEKO is a suite of software tools for application in the field of computational electromagnetics. It was designed with the "full wave" Method of Moments (MoM) technique as basis and has been hybridized to include options for use of the accurate Multilevel Fast Multipole Method (MLFMM) and the Finite Element Method (FEM) or approximation techniques such as Physical Optics (PO) and the Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD).
FELDA The Federal Land Development Authority (more commonly referred to as FELDA) is a Malaysian government agency handling the resettlement of rural poor into newly developed areas. It focuses on opening smallholder farms growing cash crops.
FELDA Soeharto FELDA Soeharto or Kampung Soeharto is a small town in Selangor, Malaysia. It was erected after the former Indonesian president, Soeharto who was visited to that village on 1977 since twelve years after the Malaysian-Indonesian Confrontation from 1962 until 1966.
FEMA photo library The FEMA Photo Library is an online gallery of photos compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States, containing approximately 14,600 disaster-related photographs taken since 1980. The majority of the collection is of declared disasters and there are also photographs from significiant public events that have occurred on or near the National Mall in Washington DC.
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force A FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (US&R Task Force) is a team of individuals specializing in urban search and rescue, disaster recovery, and emergency triage and medicine. The teams are deployed to emergency and disaster sites within six hours of notification.
FEPC The FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) was a federal executive order requiring companies with government contracts give not discriminate on the basis of race or religion. It helped African Americans obtain jobs in the homefront industry.
FERET database FERET database is the de-facto standard in facial recognition system evaluation. The Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program is managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
FERISTSA FERISTSA is the name of a proposed 2500km US$ 3 billion standard gauge railway to link Central America to Mexico and thus to the USA and Canada. The main cargo would be containers from ports in Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala.
FERN FERN, the Forests and the European Union Resource Network, is an international non-governmental organization created in 1995 to keep track of the EU’s involvement in forests and to co-ordinate NGO activities at the European level. Through its work, FERN aims to increase the political and economic opportunities for people to create a more balanced society in which human rights are fully respected and environmental and social values are fully integrated.
FERRACTOR amplifier A FERRACTOR amplifier is a type of magnetic amplifier circuit built with Ferractor®s (a type of transformer wound on a saturable core having a nearly rectangular hysteresis loop with two stable states). UNIVAC used them in the logic circuits of some of their computers in the late 1950s and early 1960s instead of vacuum tube or transistor electronic amplifiers.
FESPIC Games The FESPIC Games is the biggest multi-sports & multi-disability event for athletes with disabilities in Asia and Oceania, and the second largest Games in the world, after the Paralympic Games. The FESPIC Federationhave been organising the Games every four years, since the inaugural Games in Oita], in 1975 which saw 973 athletes from 18 countries.
FEST FEST (Russian: ФакŃльтет Đлектроники и СиŃтемотехники) is a faculty of Moscow State Forest University that specializes in computer science. It was founded in 1959 by initiative of academician Sergey Pavlovich Korolev.
FEU Mass Communication ICT The FEU Mas Communication Department has offered a new subject called Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This subject offers a basic computer learning skills, focusing on the software's that the mass media frequently uses.
FEVE FEVE (Ferrocarriles Españoles de VĂa Estrecha, meaning "Narrow-Gauge Spanish Railways") is a state-owned Spanish railway company, which operates most of Spain's 1,250 km (775 miles) of metre-gauge railways.
FEXCO FEXCO, a privately owned company, based in Killorglin, Ireland is a focused provider of global payment services and processing. Through their three core product groups Global Corporate Payments, Global Consumer Payments and Business Services they distribute millions of international payment transactions annually.
FEXTICUM FEXTICUM is a festival created in 1973 by Professor Limberg Chero Ballena. The Cultural Typical Fair of Exhibitions from MonsefĂş - FEXTICUM (acronym in Spanish)- kept with pride and commitment the cultural values of his town.
Ffa Coffi Pawb Ffa Coffi Pawb (in the Welsh language it literally means: "Everybody's Coffee Beans", phonetically: "Fuck Off, Everyone") are commonly acknowledged to be the prototype of the Super Furry Animals and were signed to top Welsh music label, Ankst.
Ffarquhar Ffarquhar is a fictional town or village on the equally fictional Island of Sodor in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends children's TV series and in The Railway Series books on which the TV series was based.
Ffestiniog Railway Letter Service The Ffestiniog Railway Letter Service is an officially authorised service within the United Kingdom railway system for posting and transmission of letters, and under certain circumstances also delivering the letters directly to intended recipients. The service operates on the Ffestiniog Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway in North Wales and similar services are operated on the Talyllyn Railway and other heritage railways in the UK.
Fflewddur Fflam Fflewddur Fflam, son of Godo, is a cantrev lord in the fictional country of Prydain, in Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain. He is referred to as a King, but it is made clear that he is a very minor king of a tiny kingdom at best, much less important than the High King who rules Prydain.
FfmpegX ffmpegX is a shareware multimedia conversion program for Mac OSX that uses many UNIX tools. It converts between many proprietary and free audio and video types and has functions for many other multimedia creation tools, such as creating DVDs.
Ffridd Gate Ffridd Gate was a station on the Corris Railway in Wales, serving the hamlet of the same name close to where the Afon Dulas meets the Afon Dyfi and the village of Llanwrin. Close by was the railway's bridge over the Dyfi, originally a wooden trestle construction and later a three-span steel bridge.
Ffynnon Lloer Ffynnon Lloer (Welsh : Source of [the] Moon) is a lake in the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales. It lies below the peaks of Pen yr Ole Wen and Carnedd Dafydd at a height of 2225' and covers an area of some 6 acres.
Ffynone House School Ffynone House School is an independent secondary school in Swansea, Wales. Situated in the Uplands area of the city, near Cwmdonkin Park, the school provides education through to GCE 'A' Level in a range of academic subjects.
Ffyona Campbell Ffyona Campbell (born 1967) is a British woman who was the first woman to walk around the world. In total she covered 32,000 km (20,000 miles) over 11 years, although the achievement was marred by the fact that she had initially cheated in a 1600-kilometer (1000-mile) stretch across the United States.
FF Groen FF Groen operated a shipyard in Amsterdam (FF Groen Scheepsbouwwerft de boot), located at 111 Gr Wittenburgerstraat. He built at least two full-rigged sailing ships, the Vondel (1894) and Nicolaas Witsen (1897), but neither was sold.
FF layout In automobile design, an FF, or front-engine, front-wheel drive layout places both the engine and driven wheels at the front of the vehicle. This layout is typically chosen for its compact packaging - that is, it takes up very little space, allowing the rest of the vehicle to be designed more flexibly.
FF Meta FF Meta is the name of a typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann. It was originally developed in 1984 as a commission for a corporate typeface for the Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post), but was never adopted for use.
FF Scala FF Scala is an old style, neohumanist, serif typeface designed by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor in 1990 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Like many contemporary Dutch serif faces, FF Scala it is not an academic revival of a single historic typeface but shows influences of several historic models.
FF Scala Sans FF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1992 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was designed as a companion to Majoor's earlier serif old style typeface FF Scala, designed in 1990.
FFDA The Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy (FFDA) is an Indian human rights monitoring organization founded in 1995 that fights to promote and protects human rights in India by working with the victims of human rights violations and their organizations. It educates the victims and their communities, and facilitates and builds the capacity of the organizations of victims to take their own action collectively.
FFTW FFTW, for "Fastest Fourier Transform in the West," is a software library for computing discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs), developed by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
FFV 016 mine The FFV 016 or (Fordonsmina 14) is a Finish designed off-route mine designed for use against lightly armoured vehicles. The mine uses a Misznay Schardin effect warhead to produce a self-forging fragment that has an initial velocitiy of approximately 2,000 meters per second and can penetrate 60 millimeters of armour at 30 meters range.
FFV 028 mine The FFV 028 were a series of steel cased Swedish anti-tank mines that used electronic fuzes. The mines are circular, with a large Misznay Schardin effect warhead in the center of the mine, with the fuzing and sensor electronics in the dead space above the charge.
FFV1 FFV1 which stands for FF video codec 1 is an experimental video encoder and decoder featuring lossless, intra-frame only and relatively high compression. It uses entropy coding methods (Golomb coding and arithmetic coding for option) provided by the free, open source library libavcodec in the project FFmpeg.
FFWD (newspaper) Fast Forward Weekly (FFWD) is a news and entertainment weekly which provides alternative viewpoints, entertainment information, review articles and specialized advertising. It is distributed throughout Calgary, Banff and Canmore.
FFXView FFXView is a free 3D Model viewer created by yaz0r, designed to read model data extracted from the Playstation 2 games, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. It is capable of displaying textures and in-game animations can be selected.
FG 42 The Fallschirmjägergewehr 42 (FG42) was an automatic rifle produced in Nazi Germany during World War II. The weapon was developed specifically for the use by paratroopers, who wanted a suitable gun after their experiences in the invasion of Crete.
FGM-172 SRAW The FGM-172 SRAW (Short-Range Assault Weapon), also known as the Predator SRAW, is a lightweight, close range missile system produced by Lockheed Martin that is designed to complement the Javelin anti-tank missile. The Predator has a longer range and is more powerful than the AT4 that it is designed to replace, but has a shorter range than Javelin.
FGS Rommel (D187) D187 Rommel was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the third and last ship of the LĂĽtjens class, a modification of the Charles F.
Fharlanghn In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and the default pantheon of deities for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Fharlanghn, the Dweller on the Horizon, is the Oeridian god of Horizons, Distance, Travel, and Roads. He is the brother of Celestian, and is said to make his home on Oerth.
FH Phantom The McDonnell FH-1 Phantom was a twin-engine jet fighter aircraft designed and first flown during World War II for the United States Navy, before jet fighters by Grumman or North American. On July 21, 1946, a Phantom became the first combat jet aircraft to operate from an American aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D.
Fi zilal al-Qur'an In the Shade of the Qur'an () is a highly influential commentary on Islam's holy book, the Qur'an, written by the Egyptian Islamic philosopher and leader, Sayyid Qutb, while imprisoned following an attempted assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954. It is considered by some Muslims to be a comprehensive and far-reaching tafsir that takes a clear and lucid interpretation of the Quran.
Fiacha Finnfolaidh Fiacha Finnfolaidh, son of Feradach Finnfechtnach, was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 1st century AD. He was overthrown by either Cairbre Cinnchait or Éllim, king of Ulster, in a revolt of the "subject peoples" against the Milesian nobility.
Fiacha mac DelbaĂth In Irish mythology, Fiacha (, sometimes Fiachu, Fiachra or Fiachna), son of Delbáeth, of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, was a legendary High King of Ireland. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he took the throne after his father was overthrown by Caicher son of Nama, brother of Nechtan.
Fiachnae mac Báetáin Fiachnae mac Báetáin, also called Fiachnae Lurgan or Fiachnae Find, was king of the Dál nAraidi and high-king of the Ulaid in the early 7th century. He was a son of Báetán mac Echdach and brother of Fiachra Cáech (died c.
Fiachu Fiachrach Also spelled as Fiacha or Fiach, from whom the territory from Birr to the Hill of Uisneach in Media Hiberniae (or Meath) is called "Cineal Fiacha," and from him [MacGeoghagan], lords of that territory, O'Molloy, O'Donechar, Donaher (or Dooner), etc., derive their pedigree [http://www.
Fialho Gouveia José Fialho Gouveia, (30 April 1935, Montijo, Portugal - 2 October 2004, Coimbra, Portugal) was a Portuguese television entertainment pioneer and former radio host, having hosted Portugal’s first television talk show.
Fiambre Fiambre is a typical food from Guatemala that is eaten on November 1st and 2nd. Guatemala, like many other Catholic countries, celebrates the Day of the Dead (DĂa de los Difuntos) and the All Saints Day (DĂa de los Santos).
Fianchetto In chess the fianchetto (/ˌfiən'kɛto/ Italian "little flanking") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.
Fianna Éireann The name Fianna Éireann (, ), also rendered as Fianna na hÉireann and Na Fianna Éireann (Irish: "Soldiery of Ireland", named after the mythological Fianna), has been used by various Irish republican youth movements throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. "Fianna na hEireann" [sic] is currently on the list of terrorist groups proscribed in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act (2000).
Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (IPA ; (mistranslated by the party into English as Soldiers of Destiny, though a literal translation is Soldiers [Fianna] of Ireland),¹ is currently the largest political party in Ireland with 55,000 members. From its establishment in the early twentieth century, the party moved from being a radical, slightly centre-left party, to becoming the dominant established party, its influence dominating government and Irish political life from the 1930s onwards.
Fianna Fáil leadership election, 1959 The 1959 Fianna Fáil leadership election began in June 1959, when Eamon de Valera resigned as party leader and Taoiseach to take up the post of President of Ireland. De Valera had been leader since the foundation of the party in 1926 and had served as Taoiseach on three occasions.
Fianna Fáil leadership election, 1994 The 1994 Fianna Fáil leadership election began in November 1994, when Albert Reynolds resigned as party leader and Taoiseach. Reynolds had been party leader since February 1992 and had served as Taoiseach since then.
Fiant The word Fiant is an abbreviation of Fiant litterae patentes, which means Let letters patent be made. These were warrants to the Court of Chancery in Ireland, which was the authority for the issue of letters patents under the Great Seal.
Fiasco (novel) Fiasco () is a science fiction novel from 1987 by Stanisław Lem that deals with clashes of cultures. The book is a further elaboration of Lem's scepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural, rather than spatial, distance.
Fiat (policy debate) Fiat (Latin for `let it be done`) is a theoretical construct in policy debate—derived from the word "should" in the resolution—whereby the desirability rather than the probability of a plan is debated, allowing an affirmative team to 'imagine' a plan into being.
Fiat 125 The Fiat 125 was a large family car introduced by Fiat in 1967. The chassis was based on that of the outgoing model, the Fiat 1300/1500 (the longer variant), the body was a further (lengthened) development of the Fiat 124 – both had the same passenger compartment and doors, whilst the engine was derived from that in the 124: a 1608 cc dohc with 90 bhp.
Fiat 1300/1500 The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 were large family cars manufactured by the Italian automaker Fiat Auto from 1961 to 1967, which replaced the Fiat 1200. The 1300 and 1500 were essentially nearly identical, but differed in engine displacement, as indicated by model names.
Fiat 131 The Fiat 131 was a small/medium family car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1974 to 1984. It was the replacement for the successful Fiat 125, and available as a 2- and 4-door saloon and 5-door estate.
Fiat 133 The Fiat 133 was a model of car developed in Spain by the Spanish brand SEAT, with which Fiat had signed an agreement of collaboration in the 60s. The 133 was a meant to replace the old 600 and 850 models, and to provide a means for SEAT to open new markets and make up for the loss of sales in Spain that would come with the disappearance of the restrictions in car imports during the 70s.
Fiat 147 The Fiat 147 was a three door hatchback compact car produced by Fiat do Brasil in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from 1976 until 1986 when it was replaced by the Fiat Uno. It was the Brazilian variant of the Fiat 127.
Fiat Albea The Fiat Albea is the sedan version of the Fiat Palio supermini, built in Turkey at the TofaĹź facilities of the Italian automaker Fiat. It is the replacement for the Siena and has been in production since 2002.
Fiat Bravo/Brava The Fiat Bravo and Fiat Brava are two small family cars produced by the Italian automaker Fiat from 1995 to 2001. Effectively two versions of the same car, the Bravo is a three-door hatchback and the Brava a five-door hatchback.
Fiat currency In economics, fiat currency or fiat money is money that enjoys legal tender status derived from a declaratory fiat or an authoritative order of the government. It is often associated with paper money because, without government fiat, bank notes are not a legal tender in payment of debt, and only specie is unlimited legal tender for money debts.
Fiat Cinquecento The Fiat Cinquecento (chink-way-chen-tow) was a city car launched by Fiat in late 1991 to replace the Fiat 126. It was the first Fiat model to be solely manufactured in the FSM plant in Tychy, Poland, which was just sold to Fiat by the Polish state, and where the production of the 126 (in its Polish variant, the Polski Fiat 126p) was still running.
Fiat Doblò The Fiat Doblò is a van and leisure activity vehicle produced since 2001 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was first launched to the public in Holland, and received the "2006 International Van of the Year" award by an international jury from 19 countries.
Fiat Duna The Fiat Duna (Fiat PrĂŞmio in Brazil) was a small car produced by Fiat in Brazil, where it was commercialized as Fiat PrĂŞmio. The Duna was based on the Fiat Uno, but unlike the Uno, it was a sedan, as such models are more popular in Southern America.
Fiat justitia ruat caelum Fiat justitia ruat caelum is a Latin legal phrase, literally translating to "let justice be done should the sky fall." It signifies that equity and justice must be carried out by courts even if their decisions have adverse effects.
Fiat Linea The Fiat Linea is a small family car to be released in 2007 by the Italian automaker Fiat in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Middle East. It will replace the aging Marea as the largest saloon in the Fiat range.
Fiat M11/39 The Fiat-Ansaldo M11/39 was an Italian medium tank used from 1939 through the early period of World War II. Although designated by the Italian Army as a medium tank, in weight and firepower it was close to contemporary light tanks.
Fiat M13/40 The Fiat-Ansaldo M13/40 light tank ("M" for Medio (medium) according to the Italian tank weight standards at the time: 13 tons was the scheduled weight and 1940 the initial year of production) was designed to replace the Fiat L3, the Fiat L6/40 and the Fiat M11/39 in the Italian Army at the start of World War II. It was armed with a 47mm gun in a rotating turret and 3 or 4 Breda 30 machine guns.
Fiat M14/41 The Fiat M14/41 was a 4 person Italian tank that served from 1941 in Italian Army. According to the Italian designation system at the time it was a medium tank, however, the M14/41 is more comparable in weight to the light tanks of other nations.
Fiat Marea The Fiat Marea is a small family car available as a saloon and a estate (Fiat Marea Weekend), produced by the Italian automaker Fiat. Launched in 1996, the Marea models were essentially different body styles of Fiat's hatchback offerings, the Bravo and Brava.
Fiat Nuova 500 A new Fiat 500 was announced by the Italian automaker Fiat on May 5 2006 It will be launched on September 17] [[2007 (exactly 500 days after the announcement or the 50th aniversary of the original 500]) and will be built in [[Tychy, Poland, alongside the other city car in the Fiat range, the Panda.
Fiat Palio The Fiat Palio is a supermini, namely Fiat's world car aimed at developing countries. It is produced in Brazil, India, Turkey, South Africa and China as a hatchback (Palio), sedan (Siena/Petra and Albea), station wagon (Palio Weekend) and pickup truck (Strada).
Fiat SOHC Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat SOHC engine first appeared in the front-wheel drive (FWD) Fiat 128 of 1969. The inline 4-cylinder engine comprised an iron block with an aluminium cylinder-head containing a single over-head camshaft operating directly on both the inlet and exhaust valves in a reverse-flow cylinder-head configuration.
Fiat Strada The Fiat Strada is a supermini pickup truck version of the Fiat's "world car" project Palio. It is produced in Brazil and exported from Betim, Minas Gerais to the European Union, where it is sold as Strada Malibu.
Fiat Twin Cam engine Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat Twin Cam was an advanced straight-4 automobile engine produced from 1959 through 1994 as a Fiat/Lancia engine and from 1994 onwards with a redesigned cylinder-head as an Alfa Romeo engine (replacing the original Alfa Romeo Twin-Cam in all front-wheel drive Alfa Romeos). Excluding the Alfasud (and derived) cars which used an original flat-four Alfa Romeo "boxer" engine As the name implies, it was a DOHC design, which was quite unusual in the late 1950s.
Fevertech Influenced in childhood and adolescence by progressive rock, new wave, and hip-hop, Fevertech began programming and producing groove-heavy electronic music in 1999, at a relatively late age, 32, with minimal experience as an amateur party DJ. His early works were sample-driven in the spirit of the 90s big beat era, peppered with electro and hip-hop influences similar to the works of Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and The Chemical Brothers.
Fevillea Fevillea (or Feuillea) is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae, the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin family. Some Google references suggest that there is only one member of this genus, Fevillea cordofolia (Antidote Vine).
Fewell Fewell is a Scottish name derived from the Mediæval word for "people". It has been a family name since the late fifth century, though the Saxon invasions mixed the native Scottish bloodline with conquering noblemen in 1200.
Fewer/less In traditional prescriptive grammar 'less' is the comparative used when speaking of a continuous quantity that is not numerically quantifiable (that is, with mass nouns). 'Fewer', on the other hand, is used of discrete quantity and numerically quantifiable quantity (or count nouns).
Fexofenadine Fexofenadine hydrochloride (brand names include Allegra® and Telfast®) is an antihistamine drug used in the treatment of hayfever and similar allergy symptoms. It was developed as a successor of and alternative to terfenadine, an antihistamine with potentially fatal contraindications.
Fey (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, Fey is a type of creature, or "creature type". Fey are usually humanoid in form, and are typified as having supernatural abilities and a connection to nature or to some other force or place.
Fey Truscott-Sade Fey Truscott-Sade, also known as Fey or Feyde, is a fictional character who appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She was a companion of the Eighth Doctor.
Feynman diagram A Feynman diagram is a method for performing calculations in quantum field theory, invented by American physicist Richard Feynman. They are also (rarely) referred to as StĂĽckelberg diagrams or (for a subset of special cases) penguin diagrams.
Feynman point The Feynman Point is the sequence of six 9s which begins at the 762nd decimal place of π. It is named after physicist Richard Feynman, who once stated during a lecture he would like to memorize the digits of π until that point, so he could recite them and quip "nine nine nine nine nine nine and so on.
Feynman sprinkler A Feynman sprinkler, Feynman inverse sprinkler or most correctly reverse sprinkler began as a thought experiment in explaining the workings of the reverse of a typical rotary lawn sprinkler. This experiment is commonly associated with and named after Richard Feynman though he did not come up with the problem or ever publish a solution to it, only help popularize it in Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman's Lost Lecture: The Motion of Planets Around the Sun Feynman's Lost Lecture: Motion of Planets Around the Sun is a book based on a lecture by Richard Feynman. Restoration of the lecture notes and conversion into book form was undertaken by Caltech physicist David L.
Feynman-Kac formula The Feynman-Kac formula, named after Richard Feynman and Mark Kac, establishes a link between partial differential equations (PDEs) and stochastic processes. It offers a method of solving certain PDEs by simulating random paths of a stochastic process.
Feza Gürsey Institute Feza Gürsey Institute is a joint institute of Boğaziçi University and TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) on physics research, founded in 1983 by Erdal İnönü with the name Research Institute for Basic Sciences. It now continues as the Feza Gürsey Institute, having been renamed in honor of Feza Gürsey, a distinguished Turkish physicist.
Fezzan Fezzan (Arabic: Ůزان transliterated: Fuzzan) (Latin name Phasania) is a south-eastern desert region and an ex Province or State ("muhafazah" or "wilayah") of Libya (alongside Tripolitania and Cyrenaica in an old system of administrative divisions which was abolished in the early 1970s] in favour of a system of smaller-size [[municipalities|municipality or "baladiyat" (singular "baladiyah"). The "Baladiyat"-system was subsequently changed many times and has lately become "Sha'biyat"-system.
FE-Schrift FE-Schrift or fälschungserschwerende Schrift (falsification-hindering script) has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates in Germany since November, 2000. It was designed for the German government in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Fraction terrorist activities, when it was discovered that with the then standard font for vehicle registration plates (DIN 1451 road-sign font) it was particularly easy to modify letters by applying a small amount of black paint or black insulating tape.
FEAL In cryptography, FEAL (the Fast Data Encipherment Algorithm) is a block cipher proposed as an alternative to the Data Encryption Standard (DES), and designed to be much faster in software. The Feistel based algorithm was first published in 1987 by Akihiro Shimizu and Shoji Miyaguchi from NTT.
FEAPI Audio analysis using machine learning methods for classification begins with an extraction of suitable features. Well-known methods for extraction of audio features are often re-implemented by many researchers working in the field of audio analysis.
FEBO FEBO (IPA pronunciation: ) is a chain of Dutch walk-up fast food restaurants of the automatiek type. Founded in 1941 in Amsterdam, FEBO is most notable for this automatiek format: a small counter is available for purchasing french fries, beverages, and grilled-to-order hamburgers.
FECOMZ FECOMZ is an acronym for "Forward Echelon, Communications Zone". FECOMZ was a headquarters, organized in WW2 and authorized by the Allied Supreme Commander, to organize and control Services of Supply for the invasion forces after D-Day.
FEDA FEDA is short for Further Education Development Agency, an organisation that was established in 1995 to support the Further Education community in England, as a result of a merger between the Further Education Unit and the Staff College.
FEKO FEKO is a suite of software tools for application in the field of computational electromagnetics. It was designed with the "full wave" Method of Moments (MoM) technique as basis and has been hybridized to include options for use of the accurate Multilevel Fast Multipole Method (MLFMM) and the Finite Element Method (FEM) or approximation techniques such as Physical Optics (PO) and the Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD).
FELDA The Federal Land Development Authority (more commonly referred to as FELDA) is a Malaysian government agency handling the resettlement of rural poor into newly developed areas. It focuses on opening smallholder farms growing cash crops.
FELDA Soeharto FELDA Soeharto or Kampung Soeharto is a small town in Selangor, Malaysia. It was erected after the former Indonesian president, Soeharto who was visited to that village on 1977 since twelve years after the Malaysian-Indonesian Confrontation from 1962 until 1966.
FEMA photo library The FEMA Photo Library is an online gallery of photos compiled by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States, containing approximately 14,600 disaster-related photographs taken since 1980. The majority of the collection is of declared disasters and there are also photographs from significiant public events that have occurred on or near the National Mall in Washington DC.
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force A FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (US&R Task Force) is a team of individuals specializing in urban search and rescue, disaster recovery, and emergency triage and medicine. The teams are deployed to emergency and disaster sites within six hours of notification.
FEPC The FEPC (Fair Employment Practices Committee) was a federal executive order requiring companies with government contracts give not discriminate on the basis of race or religion. It helped African Americans obtain jobs in the homefront industry.
FERET database FERET database is the de-facto standard in facial recognition system evaluation. The Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program is managed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
FERISTSA FERISTSA is the name of a proposed 2500km US$ 3 billion standard gauge railway to link Central America to Mexico and thus to the USA and Canada. The main cargo would be containers from ports in Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala.
FERN FERN, the Forests and the European Union Resource Network, is an international non-governmental organization created in 1995 to keep track of the EU’s involvement in forests and to co-ordinate NGO activities at the European level. Through its work, FERN aims to increase the political and economic opportunities for people to create a more balanced society in which human rights are fully respected and environmental and social values are fully integrated.
FERRACTOR amplifier A FERRACTOR amplifier is a type of magnetic amplifier circuit built with Ferractor®s (a type of transformer wound on a saturable core having a nearly rectangular hysteresis loop with two stable states). UNIVAC used them in the logic circuits of some of their computers in the late 1950s and early 1960s instead of vacuum tube or transistor electronic amplifiers.
FESPIC Games The FESPIC Games is the biggest multi-sports & multi-disability event for athletes with disabilities in Asia and Oceania, and the second largest Games in the world, after the Paralympic Games. The FESPIC Federationhave been organising the Games every four years, since the inaugural Games in Oita], in 1975 which saw 973 athletes from 18 countries.
FEST FEST (Russian: ФакŃльтет Đлектроники и СиŃтемотехники) is a faculty of Moscow State Forest University that specializes in computer science. It was founded in 1959 by initiative of academician Sergey Pavlovich Korolev.
FEU Mass Communication ICT The FEU Mas Communication Department has offered a new subject called Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This subject offers a basic computer learning skills, focusing on the software's that the mass media frequently uses.
FEVE FEVE (Ferrocarriles Españoles de VĂa Estrecha, meaning "Narrow-Gauge Spanish Railways") is a state-owned Spanish railway company, which operates most of Spain's 1,250 km (775 miles) of metre-gauge railways.
FEXCO FEXCO, a privately owned company, based in Killorglin, Ireland is a focused provider of global payment services and processing. Through their three core product groups Global Corporate Payments, Global Consumer Payments and Business Services they distribute millions of international payment transactions annually.
FEXTICUM FEXTICUM is a festival created in 1973 by Professor Limberg Chero Ballena. The Cultural Typical Fair of Exhibitions from MonsefĂş - FEXTICUM (acronym in Spanish)- kept with pride and commitment the cultural values of his town.
Ffa Coffi Pawb Ffa Coffi Pawb (in the Welsh language it literally means: "Everybody's Coffee Beans", phonetically: "Fuck Off, Everyone") are commonly acknowledged to be the prototype of the Super Furry Animals and were signed to top Welsh music label, Ankst.
Ffarquhar Ffarquhar is a fictional town or village on the equally fictional Island of Sodor in the Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends children's TV series and in The Railway Series books on which the TV series was based.
Ffestiniog Railway Letter Service The Ffestiniog Railway Letter Service is an officially authorised service within the United Kingdom railway system for posting and transmission of letters, and under certain circumstances also delivering the letters directly to intended recipients. The service operates on the Ffestiniog Railway and the Welsh Highland Railway in North Wales and similar services are operated on the Talyllyn Railway and other heritage railways in the UK.
Fflewddur Fflam Fflewddur Fflam, son of Godo, is a cantrev lord in the fictional country of Prydain, in Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain. He is referred to as a King, but it is made clear that he is a very minor king of a tiny kingdom at best, much less important than the High King who rules Prydain.
FfmpegX ffmpegX is a shareware multimedia conversion program for Mac OSX that uses many UNIX tools. It converts between many proprietary and free audio and video types and has functions for many other multimedia creation tools, such as creating DVDs.
Ffridd Gate Ffridd Gate was a station on the Corris Railway in Wales, serving the hamlet of the same name close to where the Afon Dulas meets the Afon Dyfi and the village of Llanwrin. Close by was the railway's bridge over the Dyfi, originally a wooden trestle construction and later a three-span steel bridge.
Ffynnon Lloer Ffynnon Lloer (Welsh : Source of [the] Moon) is a lake in the Carneddau range of mountains in Snowdonia, North Wales. It lies below the peaks of Pen yr Ole Wen and Carnedd Dafydd at a height of 2225' and covers an area of some 6 acres.
Ffynone House School Ffynone House School is an independent secondary school in Swansea, Wales. Situated in the Uplands area of the city, near Cwmdonkin Park, the school provides education through to GCE 'A' Level in a range of academic subjects.
Ffyona Campbell Ffyona Campbell (born 1967) is a British woman who was the first woman to walk around the world. In total she covered 32,000 km (20,000 miles) over 11 years, although the achievement was marred by the fact that she had initially cheated in a 1600-kilometer (1000-mile) stretch across the United States.
FF Groen FF Groen operated a shipyard in Amsterdam (FF Groen Scheepsbouwwerft de boot), located at 111 Gr Wittenburgerstraat. He built at least two full-rigged sailing ships, the Vondel (1894) and Nicolaas Witsen (1897), but neither was sold.
FF layout In automobile design, an FF, or front-engine, front-wheel drive layout places both the engine and driven wheels at the front of the vehicle. This layout is typically chosen for its compact packaging - that is, it takes up very little space, allowing the rest of the vehicle to be designed more flexibly.
FF Meta FF Meta is the name of a typeface family designed by Erik Spiekermann. It was originally developed in 1984 as a commission for a corporate typeface for the Deutsche Bundespost (German Federal Post), but was never adopted for use.
FF Scala FF Scala is an old style, neohumanist, serif typeface designed by Dutch typeface designer Martin Majoor in 1990 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Like many contemporary Dutch serif faces, FF Scala it is not an academic revival of a single historic typeface but shows influences of several historic models.
FF Scala Sans FF Scala Sans is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Dutch designer Martin Majoor in 1992 for the Vredenburg Music Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. It was designed as a companion to Majoor's earlier serif old style typeface FF Scala, designed in 1990.
FFDA The Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy (FFDA) is an Indian human rights monitoring organization founded in 1995 that fights to promote and protects human rights in India by working with the victims of human rights violations and their organizations. It educates the victims and their communities, and facilitates and builds the capacity of the organizations of victims to take their own action collectively.
FFTW FFTW, for "Fastest Fourier Transform in the West," is a software library for computing discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs), developed by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.
FFV 016 mine The FFV 016 or (Fordonsmina 14) is a Finish designed off-route mine designed for use against lightly armoured vehicles. The mine uses a Misznay Schardin effect warhead to produce a self-forging fragment that has an initial velocitiy of approximately 2,000 meters per second and can penetrate 60 millimeters of armour at 30 meters range.
FFV 028 mine The FFV 028 were a series of steel cased Swedish anti-tank mines that used electronic fuzes. The mines are circular, with a large Misznay Schardin effect warhead in the center of the mine, with the fuzing and sensor electronics in the dead space above the charge.
FFV1 FFV1 which stands for FF video codec 1 is an experimental video encoder and decoder featuring lossless, intra-frame only and relatively high compression. It uses entropy coding methods (Golomb coding and arithmetic coding for option) provided by the free, open source library libavcodec in the project FFmpeg.
FFWD (newspaper) Fast Forward Weekly (FFWD) is a news and entertainment weekly which provides alternative viewpoints, entertainment information, review articles and specialized advertising. It is distributed throughout Calgary, Banff and Canmore.
FFXView FFXView is a free 3D Model viewer created by yaz0r, designed to read model data extracted from the Playstation 2 games, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. It is capable of displaying textures and in-game animations can be selected.
FG 42 The Fallschirmjägergewehr 42 (FG42) was an automatic rifle produced in Nazi Germany during World War II. The weapon was developed specifically for the use by paratroopers, who wanted a suitable gun after their experiences in the invasion of Crete.
FGM-172 SRAW The FGM-172 SRAW (Short-Range Assault Weapon), also known as the Predator SRAW, is a lightweight, close range missile system produced by Lockheed Martin that is designed to complement the Javelin anti-tank missile. The Predator has a longer range and is more powerful than the AT4 that it is designed to replace, but has a shorter range than Javelin.
FGS Rommel (D187) D187 Rommel was a guided missile destroyer of the Bundesmarine (West German Navy) and later the Deutsche Marine (Navy of reunited Germany). It was the third and last ship of the LĂĽtjens class, a modification of the Charles F.
Fharlanghn In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting and the default pantheon of deities for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Fharlanghn, the Dweller on the Horizon, is the Oeridian god of Horizons, Distance, Travel, and Roads. He is the brother of Celestian, and is said to make his home on Oerth.
FH Phantom The McDonnell FH-1 Phantom was a twin-engine jet fighter aircraft designed and first flown during World War II for the United States Navy, before jet fighters by Grumman or North American. On July 21, 1946, a Phantom became the first combat jet aircraft to operate from an American aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D.
Fi zilal al-Qur'an In the Shade of the Qur'an () is a highly influential commentary on Islam's holy book, the Qur'an, written by the Egyptian Islamic philosopher and leader, Sayyid Qutb, while imprisoned following an attempted assassination of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954. It is considered by some Muslims to be a comprehensive and far-reaching tafsir that takes a clear and lucid interpretation of the Quran.
Fiacha Finnfolaidh Fiacha Finnfolaidh, son of Feradach Finnfechtnach, was a legendary High King of Ireland of the 1st century AD. He was overthrown by either Cairbre Cinnchait or Éllim, king of Ulster, in a revolt of the "subject peoples" against the Milesian nobility.
Fiacha mac DelbaĂth In Irish mythology, Fiacha (, sometimes Fiachu, Fiachra or Fiachna), son of Delbáeth, of the Tuatha DĂ© Danann, was a legendary High King of Ireland. According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, he took the throne after his father was overthrown by Caicher son of Nama, brother of Nechtan.
Fiachnae mac Báetáin Fiachnae mac Báetáin, also called Fiachnae Lurgan or Fiachnae Find, was king of the Dál nAraidi and high-king of the Ulaid in the early 7th century. He was a son of Báetán mac Echdach and brother of Fiachra Cáech (died c.
Fiachu Fiachrach Also spelled as Fiacha or Fiach, from whom the territory from Birr to the Hill of Uisneach in Media Hiberniae (or Meath) is called "Cineal Fiacha," and from him [MacGeoghagan], lords of that territory, O'Molloy, O'Donechar, Donaher (or Dooner), etc., derive their pedigree [http://www.
Fialho Gouveia José Fialho Gouveia, (30 April 1935, Montijo, Portugal - 2 October 2004, Coimbra, Portugal) was a Portuguese television entertainment pioneer and former radio host, having hosted Portugal’s first television talk show.
Fiambre Fiambre is a typical food from Guatemala that is eaten on November 1st and 2nd. Guatemala, like many other Catholic countries, celebrates the Day of the Dead (DĂa de los Difuntos) and the All Saints Day (DĂa de los Santos).
Fianchetto In chess the fianchetto (/ˌfiən'kɛto/ Italian "little flanking") is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file, the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.
Fianna Éireann The name Fianna Éireann (, ), also rendered as Fianna na hÉireann and Na Fianna Éireann (Irish: "Soldiery of Ireland", named after the mythological Fianna), has been used by various Irish republican youth movements throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. "Fianna na hEireann" [sic] is currently on the list of terrorist groups proscribed in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act (2000).
Fianna Fáil Fianna Fáil - The Republican Party (IPA ; (mistranslated by the party into English as Soldiers of Destiny, though a literal translation is Soldiers [Fianna] of Ireland),¹ is currently the largest political party in Ireland with 55,000 members. From its establishment in the early twentieth century, the party moved from being a radical, slightly centre-left party, to becoming the dominant established party, its influence dominating government and Irish political life from the 1930s onwards.
Fianna Fáil leadership election, 1959 The 1959 Fianna Fáil leadership election began in June 1959, when Eamon de Valera resigned as party leader and Taoiseach to take up the post of President of Ireland. De Valera had been leader since the foundation of the party in 1926 and had served as Taoiseach on three occasions.
Fianna Fáil leadership election, 1994 The 1994 Fianna Fáil leadership election began in November 1994, when Albert Reynolds resigned as party leader and Taoiseach. Reynolds had been party leader since February 1992 and had served as Taoiseach since then.
Fiant The word Fiant is an abbreviation of Fiant litterae patentes, which means Let letters patent be made. These were warrants to the Court of Chancery in Ireland, which was the authority for the issue of letters patents under the Great Seal.
Fiasco (novel) Fiasco () is a science fiction novel from 1987 by Stanisław Lem that deals with clashes of cultures. The book is a further elaboration of Lem's scepticism: in Lem's opinion, the difficulty in communication with alien civilizations is cultural, rather than spatial, distance.
Fiat (policy debate) Fiat (Latin for `let it be done`) is a theoretical construct in policy debate—derived from the word "should" in the resolution—whereby the desirability rather than the probability of a plan is debated, allowing an affirmative team to 'imagine' a plan into being.
Fiat 125 The Fiat 125 was a large family car introduced by Fiat in 1967. The chassis was based on that of the outgoing model, the Fiat 1300/1500 (the longer variant), the body was a further (lengthened) development of the Fiat 124 – both had the same passenger compartment and doors, whilst the engine was derived from that in the 124: a 1608 cc dohc with 90 bhp.
Fiat 1300/1500 The Fiat 1300 and Fiat 1500 were large family cars manufactured by the Italian automaker Fiat Auto from 1961 to 1967, which replaced the Fiat 1200. The 1300 and 1500 were essentially nearly identical, but differed in engine displacement, as indicated by model names.
Fiat 131 The Fiat 131 was a small/medium family car produced by the Italian manufacturer Fiat from 1974 to 1984. It was the replacement for the successful Fiat 125, and available as a 2- and 4-door saloon and 5-door estate.
Fiat 133 The Fiat 133 was a model of car developed in Spain by the Spanish brand SEAT, with which Fiat had signed an agreement of collaboration in the 60s. The 133 was a meant to replace the old 600 and 850 models, and to provide a means for SEAT to open new markets and make up for the loss of sales in Spain that would come with the disappearance of the restrictions in car imports during the 70s.
Fiat 147 The Fiat 147 was a three door hatchback compact car produced by Fiat do Brasil in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from 1976 until 1986 when it was replaced by the Fiat Uno. It was the Brazilian variant of the Fiat 127.
Fiat Albea The Fiat Albea is the sedan version of the Fiat Palio supermini, built in Turkey at the TofaĹź facilities of the Italian automaker Fiat. It is the replacement for the Siena and has been in production since 2002.
Fiat Bravo/Brava The Fiat Bravo and Fiat Brava are two small family cars produced by the Italian automaker Fiat from 1995 to 2001. Effectively two versions of the same car, the Bravo is a three-door hatchback and the Brava a five-door hatchback.
Fiat currency In economics, fiat currency or fiat money is money that enjoys legal tender status derived from a declaratory fiat or an authoritative order of the government. It is often associated with paper money because, without government fiat, bank notes are not a legal tender in payment of debt, and only specie is unlimited legal tender for money debts.
Fiat Cinquecento The Fiat Cinquecento (chink-way-chen-tow) was a city car launched by Fiat in late 1991 to replace the Fiat 126. It was the first Fiat model to be solely manufactured in the FSM plant in Tychy, Poland, which was just sold to Fiat by the Polish state, and where the production of the 126 (in its Polish variant, the Polski Fiat 126p) was still running.
Fiat Doblò The Fiat Doblò is a van and leisure activity vehicle produced since 2001 by the Italian manufacturer Fiat. It was first launched to the public in Holland, and received the "2006 International Van of the Year" award by an international jury from 19 countries.
Fiat Duna The Fiat Duna (Fiat PrĂŞmio in Brazil) was a small car produced by Fiat in Brazil, where it was commercialized as Fiat PrĂŞmio. The Duna was based on the Fiat Uno, but unlike the Uno, it was a sedan, as such models are more popular in Southern America.
Fiat justitia ruat caelum Fiat justitia ruat caelum is a Latin legal phrase, literally translating to "let justice be done should the sky fall." It signifies that equity and justice must be carried out by courts even if their decisions have adverse effects.
Fiat Linea The Fiat Linea is a small family car to be released in 2007 by the Italian automaker Fiat in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Middle East. It will replace the aging Marea as the largest saloon in the Fiat range.
Fiat M11/39 The Fiat-Ansaldo M11/39 was an Italian medium tank used from 1939 through the early period of World War II. Although designated by the Italian Army as a medium tank, in weight and firepower it was close to contemporary light tanks.
Fiat M13/40 The Fiat-Ansaldo M13/40 light tank ("M" for Medio (medium) according to the Italian tank weight standards at the time: 13 tons was the scheduled weight and 1940 the initial year of production) was designed to replace the Fiat L3, the Fiat L6/40 and the Fiat M11/39 in the Italian Army at the start of World War II. It was armed with a 47mm gun in a rotating turret and 3 or 4 Breda 30 machine guns.
Fiat M14/41 The Fiat M14/41 was a 4 person Italian tank that served from 1941 in Italian Army. According to the Italian designation system at the time it was a medium tank, however, the M14/41 is more comparable in weight to the light tanks of other nations.
Fiat Marea The Fiat Marea is a small family car available as a saloon and a estate (Fiat Marea Weekend), produced by the Italian automaker Fiat. Launched in 1996, the Marea models were essentially different body styles of Fiat's hatchback offerings, the Bravo and Brava.
Fiat Nuova 500 A new Fiat 500 was announced by the Italian automaker Fiat on May 5 2006 It will be launched on September 17] [[2007 (exactly 500 days after the announcement or the 50th aniversary of the original 500]) and will be built in [[Tychy, Poland, alongside the other city car in the Fiat range, the Panda.
Fiat Palio The Fiat Palio is a supermini, namely Fiat's world car aimed at developing countries. It is produced in Brazil, India, Turkey, South Africa and China as a hatchback (Palio), sedan (Siena/Petra and Albea), station wagon (Palio Weekend) and pickup truck (Strada).
Fiat SOHC Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat SOHC engine first appeared in the front-wheel drive (FWD) Fiat 128 of 1969. The inline 4-cylinder engine comprised an iron block with an aluminium cylinder-head containing a single over-head camshaft operating directly on both the inlet and exhaust valves in a reverse-flow cylinder-head configuration.
Fiat Strada The Fiat Strada is a supermini pickup truck version of the Fiat's "world car" project Palio. It is produced in Brazil and exported from Betim, Minas Gerais to the European Union, where it is sold as Strada Malibu.
Fiat Twin Cam engine Designed by Aurelio Lampredi the Fiat Twin Cam was an advanced straight-4 automobile engine produced from 1959 through 1994 as a Fiat/Lancia engine and from 1994 onwards with a redesigned cylinder-head as an Alfa Romeo engine (replacing the original Alfa Romeo Twin-Cam in all front-wheel drive Alfa Romeos). Excluding the Alfasud (and derived) cars which used an original flat-four Alfa Romeo "boxer" engine As the name implies, it was a DOHC design, which was quite unusual in the late 1950s.
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