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  1. FADEC Full-Authority Electronic Controls.
  2. fading In a received signal, the variation (with time) of the amplitude or relative phase, or both, of one or more of the frequency components of the signal.
  3. fading distribution The probability distribution that signal fading will exceed a given value relative to a specified reference level.
  4. fading margin Synonym fade margin.
  5. FAFB Falcon AFB, CO.
  6. FAFBR Falcon AFB Regulation
  7. fail See failure, graceful degradation.
  8. fail safe Of a device, the capability to fail without detriment to other devices or danger to personnel. 2.
  9. fail soft [The] selective termination of affected nonessential processing, when hardware or software failure is determined to be imminent. [INFOSEC-99]
  10. fail-safe operation Operation that ensures that a failure of equipment, process, or system does not propagate beyond the immediate environs of the failing entity. 2.
  11. failback In a failover cluster or server cluster, the process of returning a clustered service or application to its preferred node after the node has failed and…
  12. failback policy A set of parameters that an administrator can set for a failover cluster or server cluster that affect failback operations.
  13. failed A state that applies to a resource or a node in a failover cluster or server cluster.
  14. failed filer The filer in a clustered pair that has ceased operating. It remains the failed filer until giveback succeeds. See also "takeover."
  15. failover A cluster's ability to redirect requests from one server to another. Failover occurs when a user tries to access an application on an unavailable server…
  16. failover cluster A group of computers, known as nodes, or terminal servers working together as a single system to ensure that mission-critical applications and resources…
  17. Failover Cluster Management snap-in A Microsoft Management Console snap-in (graphical user interface) through which you can configure a failover cluster and its nodes, its clustered services…
  18. Failure An incident resulting in the uncontrolled release of water from a dam. Destroyed and made useless, ceases to function as a dam.
  19. failure access [An] Unauthorized access to data resulting from a hardware or software failure. [INFOSEC-99]
  20. failure control [The methods] used to detect imminent hardware or software failure and provide fail safe or fail soft recovery. [INFOSEC-99]
  21. Failure to Acquire (FTA) Failure of a biometric system to capture and/or extract usable information from a biometric sample.
  22. Failure to Enroll (FTE) Failure of a biometric system to form a proper enrollment reference for an end user.
  23. fair queuing The controlling of congestion in gateways by restricting every host to an equal share of gateway bandwidth.
  24. Fair Use The stated exceptions of allowed usage of work under copyright without requiring permission of the original copyright holder.
  25. Fairing Structure to protect the payload during ascent phase.
  26. FAIT A fact; an act committed; a deed.
  27. 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…
  28. 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…
  29. FALCON Fission-Activated Light Concept.
  30. 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…
  31. 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…
  32. false In Perl, any value that would look like "" or "0" if evaluated in a string context.
  33. False Acceptance When a biometric system incorrectly identifies an individual or incorrectly verifies an impostor against a claimed identity
  34. False Acceptance Rate The probability that a biometric system will incorrectly identify an individual or will fail to reject an impostor.
  35. False Acceptance Rate (FAR) A statistic used to measure biometric performance when operating in the verification task.
  36. False Alarm Rate (FAR) A statistic used to measure biometric performance when operating in the open-set identification (sometimes referred to as watchlist) task.
  37. false character See illegal character.
  38. false clock A condition where a phase-locked loop controlling a clock locks on a frequency other than the correct frequency.
  39. False Drop A web page retrieved from a search engine or directory which is not relevant to the query used.
  40. false lock A condition where a phase-locked loop locks to a frequency other than the correct one, or to an improper phase.
  41. False Match Rate A statistic used to measure biometric performance when. Similar to the False Acceptance Rate (FAR).
  42. 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…
  43. 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.
  44. 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…
  45. 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…
  46. False positives When a search returns results that do not contain what was searched for.
  47. False Rejection When a biometric system fails to identify an applicant or fails to verify the legitimate claimed identity of an applicant.
  48. 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.
  49. FAM Functional Area Management.
  50. FAMIS Financial Accounting Management Information System.
  51. FAMP Facilities Acquisition Management Plan.
  52. FAMSIM Family of Simulations (USA term).
  53. fan out The process of splitting a message to deliver e-mail messages to individual recipients. [Exchange 2007]
  54. fan-beam antenna A directional antenna producing a main beam having a large ratio of major to minor dimension at any transverse cross section.
  55. fan-out thread A thread that creates multiple message copies and places them in the appropriate link queues.
  56. fanout cable Synonym breakout cable.
  57. FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
  58. FAQ file Abbreviation for Frequently Asked Questions file. An online file that contains frequently asked questions with answers provided to assist new users and…
  59. FAR See Federal Acquisition Regulation.
  60. Far Field The region far from an antenna compared to the dimensions of the antenna and the wavelength of the radiation.
  61. far zone Synonym far-field region.
  62. far-end block error (FEBE) An indication returned to a transmitting node (source) that an errored block has been detected at the receiving node (sink). [T1.105-1988]
  63. far-end crosstalk Crosstalk that is propagated in a disturbed channel in the same direction as the propagation of a signal in the disturbing channel.
  64. far-end customer interface An associated, loop signaling, customer installation located at the far end of the network transmission path from the network interface (NI) described in…
  65. far-end receive failure (FERF) An indication returned to a transmitting link terminating equipment (LTE) upon receipt of a line AIS (alarm indication signal) code or detection of an…
  66. far-field diffraction pattern The diffraction pattern of a source (such as an LED, ILD, or the output end of an optical fiber) observed at an infinite distance from the source.
  67. far-field radiation pattern A radiation pattern measured at the far field of an antenna or other emitter.
  68. far-field region The region where the angular field distribution is essentially independent of distance from the source.
  69. Faraday effect A magneto-optic effect in which the polarization plane of an electromagnetic wave is rotated under the influence of a magnetic field parallel to the…
  70. FAS Foreign Agricultural Service
  71. FAServer The original name for NetApp filers.
  72. FAST First Action System for Trademarks
  73. fast packet switching A packet switching technique that increases the throughput by eliminating overhead.
  74. fast select An optional user facility in the virtual call service of CCITT X.25 protocol (now, ITU-T X.
  75. Fast-Burn Booster (FBB) A ballistic missile that burns out much more quickly than current versions, possibly before exiting the atmosphere entirely.
  76. fast-narrow (FN) A type of SCSI bus that supports 8-bit transfer.
  77. fast-wide (FW) A type of SCSI bus that supports 16-bit transfer.
  78. fast-wide-differential (FWD) A fast-wide SCSI implementation that uses differential signaling.
  79. FAT (1) First Article Testing. (2) Factory Acceptance Test.
  80. fat client A client-centric computing model where software must be installed on each client in a network.
  81. fatal error A fatal error occurs in the SAX parser when a document is not well formed or otherwise cannot be processed. See also error, warning.
  82. Fault "Fault" means adultery, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, abandonment or reckless spending.
  83. fault management In network management, the set of functions that (a) detect, isolate, and correct malfunctions in a telecommunications network, (b) compensate for…
  84. fault protection subsystem In a facility power distribution system, the subsystem that provides a direct path from each power sink to the earth electrode subsystem.
  85. Fault-Tolerance The ability of a processor to maintain mission effectiveness after some subsystems failed.
  86. Favicon Favorites Icon is a small icon which appears next to URLs in a web browser. Upload an image named favicon.
  87. FAX Short for facsimile. A process of transmitting documents by scanning them to digital, converting to analog, transmitting over phone lines and reversing…
  88. FBB Fast-Burn Booster.
  89. FBIS Foreign Broadcast Information Service (US).
  90. FBM Fleet Ballistic Missile.
  91. FBMS Fleet Ballistic Missile System (USN term).
  92. FBP Forward Based Probe.
  93. FBR Forward-Based Radar (US Army term).
  94. FBS Forward-Based System.
  95. FBXR Forward-Based X-band Radar.
  96. FC A product of hydrolysis of an IgG antibody, consisting of parts of the constant regions of two heavy chains held together by a disulphide bridge, but…
  97. FC (Fibre Channel) A high-speed network technology typically used to build Storage Area Networks (SAN).
  98. FC-AL Fibre Channel-Arbitrated Loop. A type of Fibre Channel network in which devices are connected in a loop topology.
  99. FC-GS Fiber Channel Generic Services. An ANSI standard that specifies various Fibre Channel services.
  100. FCA Functional Configuration Audit.