ExpertGlossary terms starting with F

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  1. Financial plan A financial plan is a document that describes your current financial status, your financial goals and when you want to achieve them, and strategies to…
  2. Financial planner A financial planner evaluates your personal finances and helps you develop a financial plan to meet both your immediate needs and your long-term goals.
  3. Financial pyramid Many investors structure their portfolios in the form of a financial pyramid. The base of the pyramid is made up of nonvolatile, liquid assets.
  4. financial records Spending and income records and items to keep for tax purposes, including paycheck stubs, statements of interest or dividends earned, and records of…
  5. Financial Regulatory Agency An organization authorized by statute for ensuring the safe and sound operation of financial institutions chartered to conduct business under that…
  6. Financial Secrecy This term refers to the confidentiality afforded to financial transactions either by enactment of law or by other means.
  7. Financial Status Report (FSR - Form 269) A report that is required to be submitted within 90 days after the end of the budget period that serves as documentation of the financial status of grants…
  8. Financial transaction A transaction that involves only the exchange of money, with no physical delivery.
  9. Financial transmission right A contract that entitles the holder to receive or pay compensation for transmission charges that arise when grid congestions cases price differences due…
  10. Financially settled Consummated exclusively by an exchange of funds, without the potential of exchange – or actual exchange – of commodities or other things of value.
  11. Financing Borrowing money to buy something.
  12. finasteride (fi-NAS-ta-ride) A drug used to reduce the amount of male hormone (testosterone) produced by the body.
  13. Findability How easily found your site is using search engines.
  14. finder method A method defined in the home interface and invoked by a client to locate an entity bean.
  15. Finding Formal conclusion by a judge or regulatory agency on issues of fact. Also, a conclusion by a jury regarding a fact.
  16. finding aid A descriptive tool to establish physical and/or intellectual control over records See also file guide and guide.
  17. finding aids The descriptive media, published and unpublished, created by an originated office, which establish physical or administrative control over records and…
  18. Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) A document describing the reasons why the impacts of a proposed federal action are not significant.
  19. Fine The monetary penalty assessed against a defendant.
  20. fine-needle aspiration biopsy (... NEE-dul as-per-AY-shun BY-op-see) The removal of tissue or fluid with a thin needle for examination under a microscope. Also called FNA biopsy.
  21. Fines Portion of a soil finer that a No. 200 U.S. Standard sieve. Clay or silt particles in soil.
  22. finesse fishing An angling technique characterized by the use of light tackle - line, rods, reels and artificial baits.
  23. finger A computer-operating-system command for accessing limited network-user-account information.
  24. Finger drains A series of parallel drains of narrow width (instead of a continuous drainage blanket) draining to the downstream toe of the embankment dam.
  25. fingerling A young fish about a finger long, usually 2 inches or so in length.
  26. Fingerprint Recognition A biometric modality that uses the physical structure of an individual�s fingerprint for recognition purposes.
  27. Fingerprinting See: DNA fingerprinting.
  28. Finial The crowning ornament of a pointed element, such as a spire.
  29. Finis The end or conclusion.
  30. Finish The visual characteristics including color, texture and reflectivity of all exterior materials.
  31. finished call In an information transaction, a call in which the call originator or call receiver terminates the communication and goes on hook, i.e., hangs up. 2.
  32. Finished DNA Sequence High-quality, low error, gap-free DNA sequence of the human genome. Achieving this ultimate 2003 HGP goal requires additional sequencing to close gaps…
  33. Finished grade The elevation or surface of the earth after all earthwork has been completed (also finish grade). The final grade required by specifications.
  34. Finite Having a set amount. A barrel of 30 apples contains only 30 apples. However the number of times one can divide a meter into two parts is infinite.
  35. FIP Federal Information Processing.
  36. FIP equipment In the Federal government, any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment (as defined in 41CFR) used in the automatic acquisition…
  37. FIP system In the Federal government, any organized combination of FIP equipment, software, services, support services, or related supplies.
  38. FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology after approval by the Secretary of Commerce pursuant…
  39. FIPS Approved Security Method A security method (e.g., cryptographic algorithm, cryptographic key generation algorithm or key distribution technique, random number generator…
  40. FIPS PUB An acronym for Federal Information Processing Standards Publication. FIPS publications (PUB) are issued by NIST after approval by the Secretary of…
  41. FIPSPUBS Federal Information Processing Standards Publication.
  42. Fire Classification Classifications of fires developed by the National Fire Protection Association.
  43. Fire Control The control of all operations in connection with the application of fire on a target.
  44. Fire Control System A group of interrelated fire control equipment and/or instruments designed for use with a weapon or group of weapons.
  45. Fire Debris a general term used to define the debris from a fire that is collected as evidence for laboratory examination.
  46. Fire emissions Emissions caused by wildfires, prescribed fires, agricultural fires, and structural fires.
  47. Fire insurance Same or similar to "property insurance." See also "property insurance."
  48. Fire Support Coordinating Line (FSCL) A line established by the appropriate ground commander to ensure the coordination of fire not under the commanders control but may affect current tactical…
  49. Fire Support Coordinating Measure A measure employed by land or amphibious commanders to facilitate the rapid engagement of targets and simultaneously safeguard friendly forces.
  50. Fire Wind A thermally driven wind blowing radially inward toward a fire, produced by horizontal temperature differences between the heated air above the fire and…
  51. Fire-cracked rock Burned rocks, typically fractured during intense heating in a fire hearth or remnants of rocks associated with cooking.
  52. Fire-Rating The ability of a building construction assembly (partition, wall, floor, etc.) to resist the passage of fire. The rating is expressed in hours.
  53. Fire-tolerant species Species of plants that can withstand certain frequency and intensity of fire.
  54. firearms / toolmarks identification The basic principle of firearms examination is based on the fact that most machined parts will have unique marks, which can be transfered to other…
  55. Firearms and Toolmarks Section a discipline responsible for the comparison of firearms, casings, projectiles and other evidence that may be associated through toolmarks.
  56. Firebrand Any source of heat, natural or man made, capable of igniting wildland fuels; flaming or glowing fuel particles that can be carried naturally by wind…
  57. FIREFLY [A] key management protocol based on public key cryptography. [INFOSEC-99]
  58. Firefox Popular extensible open source web browser. See also: Download Firefox
  59. Fireplace A wood or gas burning appliance that is primarily used to provide ambiance to a room.
  60. Fireplace Insert A wood or gas burning heating appliance that fits into the opening or protrudes on to the hearth of a conventional fireplace.
  61. Firewall A set of related programs that protect the resources of a private network from users from other networks.
  62. Firewall Control Proxy The component that controls a firewalls handling of a call. The firewall control proxy can instruct the firewall to open specific ports that are needed by…
  63. Firewall Environment A firewall environment is a collection of systems at a point on a network that together constitute a firewall implementation.
  64. Firewall Platform A firewall platform is the system device upon which a firewall is implemented. An example of a firewall platform is a commercial operating system running…
  65. Firewall Ruleset A firewall ruleset is a table of instructions that the firewall uses for determining how packets should be routed between its interfaces.
  66. Firing Doctrine The ratio and manner of assigning numbers of interceptors against given attackers. One-on-one, salvo, shoot-look-shoot, shoot-fail-shoot, etc.
  67. Firing Rate The amount of BTUs/hour or kWs produced by a heating system from the burning of a fuel.
  68. Firm energy (power) Non-interruptible energy and power guaranteed by the supplier to be available at all times, except for uncontrollable circumstances.
  69. Firm power (firm energy) Power which is guaranteed by the supplier to be available at all times during a period covered by a commitment.
  70. Firm quote A firm quote includes a bid and ask price at which a market maker is willing to trade a specific quantity - 100 shares of stock, for example.
  71. Firm transportation Energy network service assuring market participants of a specified quality and quantity of service under normal operating conditions.
  72. Firm yield The maximum quantity of water that can be guaranteed with some specified degree of confidence during a specific critical period.
  73. FIRMR Federal Information Resources Management Regulation.
  74. Firmware The programs and data components of a cryptographic module that are stored in hardware within the cryptographic boundary and cannot be dynamically written…
  75. Firn (Snow) Old snow on top of glaciers, granular and compact and not yet converted into ice. It is a transitional stage between snow and ice. Also called Neve.
  76. Firn Line The highest level to which the fresh snow on a glacier's surface retreats during the melting season.
  77. FIRST Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams.
  78. First Action The first examination on the merits of the claims.
  79. First Article First article includes pre-production models, initial production samples, test samples, first lots, pilot models, and pilot lots.
  80. First Base The position of the player at the blackjack table who gets his cards first. If you're standing behind the table, the player at the far right is in first…
  81. First Contingency Reliability Criteria The requirement that an electric system be planned and operated so that it can safely withstand the loss of the largest single system element (i.e.
  82. First Customer Shipment (FCS) The initial shipment of a NetApp product. Products with this designation have undergone extensive internal testing and fully met the NetApp criteria for…
  83. First in time, first in right See Prior Appropriation Doctrine
  84. First Law of Thermodynamics States that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form to another.
  85. first line therapy (... THAYR-uh-pee) The first treatment for a disease or condition. In patients with cancer, first-line therapy can be surgery, chemotherapy, radiation…
  86. First Mortgage A real estate loan which is in a first lien position, taking priority over all other liens.
  87. first mortgage loan A first mortgage loan means a loan or an extension of credit, including, but not limited to, an extension of credit pursuant to a contract or an assigned…
  88. First Party The policyholder (insured) in an insurance contract.
  89. First Preference A category of family immigration (F1) for unmarried sons and daughters of U.S. citizens and their children.
  90. First Strike The first offensive action of a war (generally associated with nuclear operations).
  91. First Time Home Buyer A person with no ownership interest in a principal residence during the three-year period preceding the purchase of the security property.
  92. First to File A system in which the first person to file a patent application on a patentable invention will be awarded a patent.
  93. First to Invent A system in which the first person to invent an invention will be awarded a patent. This system is used in the U.S. and in the Philippines. MPEP 2138.01.
  94. First Unit Equipped Date The scheduled date an end item and its support elements are issued to the initial operational capability unit and training in the new equipment training…
  95. first window Of silica-based optical fibers, the transmission window at approximately 830 to 850 nm. [FAA]
  96. first-degree relative The parents, brothers, sisters, or children of an individual. Also called FDR.
  97. first-in first-out (FIFO) A queuing discipline in which entities in a queue leave the queue in the same order in which they arrive.
  98. first-in last-out (FILO) A queuing discipline in which entities in a queue leave the queue in the reverse order from that in which they arrived.
  99. First-party claim A claim filed by an insured against his or her own insurance policy.
  100. first-route traffic Traffic that has not been route-advanced at any switching system. [T1.Rpt 11-1991]