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• Faint Object Spectrograph
  Faint Object Spectrograph
  
  The Faint Object Spectrograph was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 1997....
   as done by the Hubble Space Telescope
  Hubble Space Telescope
  
  The Hubble Space Telescope is a Space observatory that was carried into Low Earth orbit STS-31 in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble....
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• Feature-oriented scanning
  Feature-oriented scanning
  
  ru:Wikipedia:???????????-??????????????? ????????????ru:Wikipedia:????????-??????????????? ????????????ru:Wikipedia:???ru:Wikipedia:OO???Feature-oriented scanning is a method intended for high-precision measurement of nanotopography as well as other surface properties and characteristics on a Scanning_probe_microscopy using features o...
  
• Freedom of speech
  Freedom of speech
  
  Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak freely without censorship or limitation. The synonymous term freedom of expression is sometimes used to denote not only freedom of verbal speech but any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used....
  
• Factor of safety
  Factor of safety
  
  Factor of safety can mean either the fraction of structural capability over that required, or a multiplier applied to the maximum expected load to which a component or assembly will be subjected....
   in mechanical and structural engineering.
• Fabric OS
  Fabric OS
  
  In storage area networking, Fabric OS is a firmware for Brocade Communications Systems's Fibre Channel switches and Fibre Channel directors....
  , Brocade Fibre Channel
  Fibre Channel
  
  Fibre Channel, or FC, is a gigabit-speed network technology primarily used for storage networking. Fibre Channel is standardized in the Technical Committee T11 of the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards , an American National Standards Institute ?accredited standards committee....
   operating system
  Operating system
  
  An operating system is an interface between hardware and applications; it is responsible for the management and coordination of activities and the sharing of the limited resources of the computer....
   (computing)
• FOS/NT - flight operations software from CTA
• Fructooligosaccharide
  Fructooligosaccharide
  
  Fructooligosaccharides also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, is a class of oligosaccharides used as an artificial or alternative sweetener....
  
• Future Office System
  Future Office System
  
  FOS is a workflow and case management system developed by Anite and used by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for the processing of criminal cases in Scotland, United Kingdom....
   as used by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
  Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
  
  The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service provides an independent public prosecutor, investigates sudden death and suspicious deaths and handles complaints against the Police in Scotland....
   and developed by Anite
• Female oral stimulation, another name for cunnilingus
  Cunnilingus
  
  Cunnilingus is the act of using the mouth, lips, and tongue to stimulate the female genitals.The term comes from an alternative Latin word for the vulva and from the Latin word for tongue ....
  
• Financial Ombudsman Service
  Financial Ombudsman Service
  
  The United Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service is an ombudsman established in 2001 as a result of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to help settle disputes between consumers and UK-based businesses providing financial services, such as banks, building societies, insurance companies, investment firms, financial advisers and finance...
   - Financial Ombudsman Service
• Full of shit. Someone having an excessive amount of waste in their bodies or describing someone who lies as in; "You said the tree was blue, you are full of shit."

French Communes

• Fos, Haute-Garonne
  Fos, Haute-Garonne
  
  Fos is a Communes of France in the Haute-Garonne Departments of France in southwestern France.See also* GR 10 ...
  
• Fos, Hérault
  Fos, Hérault
  
  Fos is a Communes of France in the H?rault Departments of France in southern France....
  
• Fos-sur-Mer
  Fos-sur-Mer
  
  Fos-sur-Mer is a commune in France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France in southern France....
  , Bouches-du-Rhône
• Fos, sea port of Marseille
  Marseille
  
  "Marseille" is the second-largest city of France and forms the third-largest aire urbaine, after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population recorded to be 1,516,340 at the 1999 census and estimated to be 1,605,000 in 2007....
  

Music

• Fos, a single released by Elena Paparizou
  Elena Paparizou
  
  Elena Paparizou is a Greeks singer, born and raised in Sweden. She is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece with the song "My Number One"....
  

Science

• The product of the immediate early gene c-Fos
  C-Fos
  
  In molecular biology, c-Fos is a cellular proto-oncogene belonging to the immediate early gene family of transcription factors. c-Fos has a leucine-zipper DNA binding domain, and a transactivation domain at the C-terminus....
   which dimerises via a leucine zipper with jun to form the transcription factor activator protein-1
• as an initialism for Fructooligosaccharide
  Fructooligosaccharide
  
  Fructooligosaccharides also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, is a class of oligosaccharides used as an artificial or alternative sweetener....
  , an oligosaccharide used as an artificial or alternative sweetener