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  1. Fair Credit Reporting Act A consumer protection law that regulates the disclosure of consumer credit reports by credit reporting agencies and specifies procedures for challenging…
  2. Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) A Federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes.
  3. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a set of United States statutes added as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
  4. Fair Game A game where neither the house nor the player has the edge. Roulette is not a Fair Game.
  5. Fair Housing Act The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to discriminate, in any phase of selling or renting real estate, against anyone on the basis of race, color…
  6. Fair Market Value Fair market value is the price you would have to pay to buy a particular asset or service on the open market.
  7. fair queuing The controlling of congestion in gateways by restricting every host to an equal share of gateway bandwidth.
  8. Fair Use The stated exceptions of allowed usage of work under copyright without requiring permission of the original copyright holder.
  9. Fairing Structure to protect the payload during ascent phase.
  10. FAIT A fact; an act committed; a deed.
  11. Fake Copy Listings Sometimes a malicious company will steal a web page or the entire contents of a web site, re-publish at a different URL and register with one or more…
  12. fake sector In information assurance, a sector consisting of a header but no data, used in large numbers on a diskette to cause an unauthorized copying program to…
  13. Falciparum See Plasmodium.
  14. FALCON Fission-Activated Light Concept.
  15. falimarev (fuh-LIM-uh-rev) A cancer vaccine made with a form of a chicken virus that does not cause disease in humans.
  16. Fall The amount of slope given to horizontal runs of pipe.
  17. Fall Line Direction that water flows down a hill.
  18. Fall overturn A mixing or turning over of the water takes place in the fall and results in reoxygenation of the water.
  19. fall streaks The falling ice crystals that evaporate before reaching the ground.
  20. fall time The time required for the amplitude of a pulse to decrease (fall) from a specified value (usually 90 percent of the peak value exclusive of overshoot or…
  21. Fall Wind A strong, cold, downslope wind.
  22. fallback action The action that an Exchange Server 2007 transport rule takes if a disclaimer cannot be applied to an e-mail message as, for example, when a message is…
  23. Fallen angel Corporate or municipal bonds that were investment-grade when they were issued but have been downgraded are called fallen angels.
  24. fallopian tube (fuh-LOH-pee-in...) A slender tube through which eggs pass from an ovary to the uterus.
  25. Fallow Land plowed and tilled and left unplanted.
  26. Fallstreak Same as Virga; streaks or wisps of precipitation falling from a cloud but evaporating before reaching the ground.
  27. false In Perl, any value that would look like "" or "0" if evaluated in a string context.
  28. False Acceptance When a biometric system incorrectly identifies an individual or incorrectly verifies an impostor against a claimed identity
  29. False Acceptance Rate The probability that a biometric system will incorrectly identify an individual or will fail to reject an impostor.
  30. False Acceptance Rate (FAR) A statistic used to measure biometric performance when operating in the verification task.
  31. False Alarm Rate (FAR) A statistic used to measure biometric performance when operating in the open-set identification (sometimes referred to as watchlist) task.
  32. false character See illegal character.
  33. false clock A condition where a phase-locked loop controlling a clock locks on a frequency other than the correct frequency.
  34. False Drop A web page retrieved from a search engine or directory which is not relevant to the query used.
  35. false fruit See: pseudocarp.
  36. false lock A condition where a phase-locked loop locks to a frequency other than the correct one, or to an improper phase.
  37. False Match Rate A statistic used to measure biometric performance when. Similar to the False Acceptance Rate (FAR).
  38. False Match Rate (FMR) Alternative to False Acceptance Rate. Used to avoid confusion in applications that reject the claimant if their biometric data matches that of an…
  39. False negative test result that states that an analyte is absent, when, in fact, it is present above the established limit of detection for the analyte in question.
  40. False Non Match Rate (FNMR) Alternative to False Rejection Rate. Used to avoid confusion in applications that reject the claimant if their biometric data matches that of an applicant.
  41. False Non-Match Rate A statistic used to measure biometric performance. Similar to the False Reject Rate (FRR), except the FRR includes the Failure To Acquire error rate and…
  42. false positive test result that states that an analyte is present, when, in fact, it is not present or, is present in an amount less than a threshold or designated…
  43. False Positive/Negative A result that is not correct. This may be a result of performing a process incorrectly or using a process that is not accurate.
  44. False positives When a search returns results that do not contain what was searched for.
  45. False Rejection When a biometric system fails to identify an applicant or fails to verify the legitimate claimed identity of an applicant.
  46. False Rejection Rate (FRR) The probability that a biometric system will fail to identify an applicant, or verify the legitimate claimed identity of an applicant.
  47. False set. See horsehead.
  48. False shuffle A dealer cheating method which doesn't really randomize the deck of cards.
  49. false-casting, false-cast Fly-casting line in the air (not touching the water) to increase length of line and perfect accuracy to the target.
  50. false-negative test result A test result that indicates that a person does not have a specific disease or condition when the person actually does have the disease or condition.
  51. false-positive test result (fawls-PAH-zih-tiv ... reh-ZULT) A test result that indicates that a person has a specific disease or condition when the person actually does not have the…
  52. FAM Functional Area Management.
  53. familial adenomatous polyposis (fuh-MIH-lee-ul A-deh-NOH-muh-tus PAH-lee-POH-sis) An inherited condition in which numerous polyps (growths that protrude from mucous membranes) form on…
  54. familial atypical multiple mole melanoma syndrome An inherited condition marked by the following: (1) one or more first- or second-degree relatives (parent, sibling, child, grandparent, grandchild, aunt…
  55. familial cancer Cancer that occurs in families more often than would be expected by chance. These cancers often occur at an early age, and may indicate the presence of a…
  56. familial dysplastic nevi (fa-MI-lee-yul dis-PLAS-tik NEE-vye) A condition that runs in certain families in which at least two members have dysplastic nevi (atypical moles) and…
  57. familial isolated hyperparathyroidism (fuh-MIH-lee-ul I-soh-LAY-ted HY-per-PAYR-uh-THY-roy-dih-zum) A rare inherited condition in which one or more tumors form in the parathyroid glands (four…
  58. familial Mediterranean fever An inherited disease whose chief symptoms are recurrent fevers and severe abdominal pain due to inflammation of the abdominal cavity.
  59. familial medullary thyroid cancer (fuh-MIH-lee-ul MED-yoo-LAYR-ee THY-royd KAN-ser) An inherited form of medullary thyroid cancer (cancer that forms in the cells of the thyroid that make…
  60. familial polyposis (fuh-MIH-lee-ul PAH-lee-POH-sis) An inherited condition in which numerous polyps (growths that protrude from mucous membranes) form on the inside walls of…
  61. Familial Status HUD uses this term to describe a single person, a pregnant woman or a household with children under 18 living with parents or legal custodians who might…
  62. familiarization (FAM) tour A free or reduced-rate trip offered to travel professionals to acquaint them with what a destination, attraction, or supplier has to offer.
  63. Familiarization Trip A complimentary or reduced-rate travel program for travel agents, airline or rail employees or other travel buyers, designed to acquaint participants with…
  64. family (patent) -- see patent family
  65. Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Family and Medical Leave Act (29 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.) is a federal law that ensures that eligible workers are able to take unpaid extended leaves of…
  66. Family Centered Care A model in which systems of care under Ryan White Part D are designed to address the needs of PLWHA and affected family members as a unit, providing or…
  67. family farmer Individual and family engaged in farming operation.
  68. family farmer or family fisherman An individual, individual and spouse, corporation, or partnership engaged in a farming or fishing operation that meets certain debt limits and other…
  69. Family First Preference A category of family immigration (F1) for unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens, and their children.
  70. Family Fourth Preference A category of family immigration (F4) for brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens and their spouses and children.
  71. family history A record of a person's current and past illnesses, and those of his or her parents, brothers, sisters, children, and other family members.
  72. Family law Those areas of the law pertaining to families, i.e., marriage, divorce, child custody, juvenile, paternity, etc.
  73. Family of funds Many large mutual fund companies offer a variety of stock, bond, and money market funds with different investment strategies and objectives.
  74. Family Pot A pot in which all (or almost all) of the players call before the flop.
  75. Family Preference Categories Visa cases under these categories are processed based on an approved Form I-130 visa petition.
  76. Family Range A family range describes the range of documents from the first Bates production number assigned to the first page of the top most parent document through…
  77. Family Relationship A family relationship is formed among two or more documents that have a connection or relatedness because of some factor.
  78. Family Second Preference A category of family immigration (F2) for spouses, children and unmarried sons and daughters of lawful permanent residents.
  79. family therapy (FAM-ih-lee THAYR-uh-pee) A type of therapy in which the whole family talks with a professional counselor to solve family problems.
  80. Family Third Preference A category of family immigration (F3) for married sons and daughters of U.S. citizens and their spouses and children.
  81. FAMIS Financial Accounting Management Information System.
  82. FAMMM syndrome An inherited condition marked by the following: (1) one or more first- or second-degree relatives (parent, sibling, child, grandparent, grandchild, aunt…
  83. FAMP Facilities Acquisition Management Plan.
  84. FAMSIM Family of Simulations (USA term).
  85. Fan An electrically or mechanically driven device that is used to pull air through the radiator or oil cooler.
  86. Fan apron A sloping alluvial fan surface made of sediment deposited by streams at the mouth of a canyon between a mountain and the adjacent alluvial valley floor.
  87. fan cast Making a series of casts only a few degrees apart to cover a half circle (more or less). Often used to locate actively feeding fish.
  88. Fan Coil A heat exchanger coil in which a fluid such as water is circulated and a fan blows air over the coil to distribute heat or cool air to the different rooms.
  89. fan out The process of splitting a message to deliver e-mail messages to individual recipients. [Exchange 2007]
  90. Fan piedmont A sloping alluvial fan surface made of sediment deposited by streams at the mouth of a canyon between a mountain and the adjacent alluvial valley floor.
  91. Fan remnant An erosional remnant (or fossil) of a once active and more extensive alluvial fan.
  92. Fan terrace See Alluvial fan terrace
  93. Fan Velocity Pressure The pressure corresponding to the outlet velocity of a fan; the kinetic energy per unit volume of flowing air.
  94. fan-beam antenna A directional antenna producing a main beam having a large ratio of major to minor dimension at any transverse cross section.
  95. fan-out thread A thread that creates multiple message copies and places them in the appropriate link queues.
  96. fanciful marks comprise terms that have been invented for the sole purpose of functioning as a trademark or service mark.
  97. Fanconi anemia (fan-KOH-nee uh-NEE-mee-uh) A rare inherited disorder in which the bone marrow does not make blood cells.
  98. Fanconi syndrome (fan-KOH-nee SIN-drome) A group of kidney disorders that cause protein, sugar, minerals, and other nutrients to be lost in the urine.
  99. Fanlight A semicircular or semielliptical window above a door, usually inset with radiating glazing bars.
  100. Fannie Mae Fannie Mae has a dual role in the US mortgage market. Specifically, the corporation buys mortgages that meet its standards from mortgage lenders around…