FM (disambiguation)
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Electrical engineering
- In the field of electrical engineering, FM usually stands for frequency modulation. Its most common applications are:
- * FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies
- * FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers
Publications
- Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
- F.M. (book), a book by Boris Akunin related to F.M. Dostoevsky
Science
- Fermium, the chemical symbol for Fermium
- Ferrous metal, any ferromagnetic metal (iron, nickel, cobalt, neodymium, or praseodymium)
- fathom, a marine unit of length
- fm, the symbol for femtometre, an SI unit of length (also known as the fermi)
People
- Federal Magistrate
- Female
- First Minister
- Flight Manager
- Football manager
- Foreign Minister
- FM Einheit alias FM, german musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
- F.M. Dostoevsky, prominent russian writer of the XIX century. In may 2006 a book titled F.M. about Dostoevsky by Boris Akunin will be released.
- FIDE Master is a title awarded by the world chess governing body.
Places
- Fargo-Moorhead, a metropolitan area of the United States (more commonly abbreviated F-M)
- Federated States of Micronesia: ISO 3166-1 country code, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code, and postal code
Organizations
- Fannie Mae, a colloquial name for the United States' Federal National Mortgage Association
- Freddie Mac, a similar colloquialism for the United States' Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Computing
- Federated States of Micronesia: .fm is its country-code top-level domain (ccTLD)
- File Manager
- a line of personal computers by Fujitsu (e.g. the FM Towns)
- Football Manager - a football management computer games series
Military
- Field Manual, in U.S. Army parlance
The FM Protocol came about in the mid 1990's for computer professionals who were fed up with explaining technical solutions to clueless end users and quite possibly clueless managers. [adj. F****ing Magic]
Music
- Flogging Molly, a band
- FM, a Canadian progressive-rock band
- Fm, the musical chord of F minor
- FM Einheit alias FM (german musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten)
- "FM" song by Steely Dan
Other
- Farm to Market Road (sometimes written F-t-M), a state or county road which connects rural and agricultural areas to market towns. In Texas, Farm to Market Roads are often abbreviated as FM
- Shanghai Airlines: IATA airline designator
- FM (movie), a 1978 film
- Fictionmania
- Fairbanks-Morse
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