Fast

Fast or FAST may refer to:

Common uses

Fast, (adjective) high speed or velocity
Fast, (noun, verb) to practice fasting, abstaining from food and/or water for a certain period of time

Eddie Clarke (born 1950), nicknamed "Fast Eddie Clarke", British guitarist from Motörhead
Brian Leiser (born 1972), nicknamed "Fast", a musician in the band Fun Lovin' Criminals

Fast Product, a record label
Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies

Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, a thesaurus of subject headings
Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering
FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming
FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool, software to develop work schedules
Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection
Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, passed by the United States Congress
Foreign-Deployed Advisory and Support Teams, a former program of the US Drug Enforcement Administration—see the Special Response Teams section
Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States and Mexico-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch of the United States Marine Corps
Fuel And Sensor Tactical Packs, a type of conformal fuel tank developed for the F-15.

Farnborough Air Sciences Trust, an aviation museum
Financial Alliance for Sustainable Trade
Firefighter Assist and Search Team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology

FAST (stroke) (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time), a mnemonic for the symptoms of a stroke
Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training, a NASA program
Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, a large single-dish radio telescope in Guizhou province, China
Fluorescence-activating and absorption-shifting tag, genetically-encoded protein tag used in molecular biology
Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method
Future Attribute Screening Technology

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