FM (disambiguation)
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[edit] 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
[edit] Publications
- Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
- F.M. (book), a book by Boris Akunin related to F.M. Dostoevsky
- In the U.S. Army the acronym FM stands for Field Manuals
[edit] Science
- Fm, 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)
[edit] 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 was released.
- FIDE Master is a title awarded by the world chess governing body.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Military
- Field Manual, in U.S. Army parlance
[edit] Music
- "FM (No Static At All)", song by Steely Dan
- "FM" (standing for "frequent mutilation"), song by The Slits
- Flogging Molly, a band
- Fort Minor, a side project by Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda
- FM, a Canadian progressive-rock band
- Fm, the musical chord of F minor
- FM Einheit alias FM (german musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten)
[edit] Other
- Facility Management
- 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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