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FAST is an abbreviation for:
- Fabbrica Automobili Sport Torino , Italian automobile manufacturer existing from 1919 to 1925
- Farnborough Air Sciences Trust , museum in Farnborough, Hampshire
- NASDAQ symbol from Fastenal
- First Assistance Samaritian Team , foreign aid team of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund eV
- Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team , United States Marine Corps special forces
- Function analysis system technology , problem-solving instrument of value analysis
In technology and science, FAST stands for:
- Fast AQM Scalable TCP , protocol in computer science
- Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer , a science mission from the Goddard Space Flight Center
- Fast Search and Transfer , Norwegian search engine technology company
- FAST technology, installation method for fiber optic cables in sewers
- Field Assisted Sintering Technology, (German field assisted sintering technology), special sintering method for ceramic and metal powder, similiar. Spark Plasma Sintering → SPS
- FAST Observatory , in terms of area of the world's largest radio telescope in China ( F ive-hundred-meter A perture S pherical radio T elescope)
- Flash-Assisted Storage Technology, see hybrid hard disk
- Interest operator (image processing)
- FAST protocol , an adaptation of the FIX protocol for streaming
In medicine, FAST stands for:
- FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time), test to detect a stroke
- F. A. S. T. , product for creating an intraosseous access (medicine)
- Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma , ultrasound diagnostics to reveal bleeding and organ injuries
- Functional Assessment Staging , procedure for determining the severity of dementia
Almost is the family name of the following people:
- Alexia Fast (* 1992), Canadian actress
- Barbara G. Fast (* 1953), American Major General
- Boris de Fast , French stage and film actor, screenwriter, film editor and makeup artist
- Brad Fast (* 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dietrich Fast (* 1985), German poker player
- Ernst Fast (1881–1959), Swedish athlete
- Franziska Fast (1925-2003), Austrian politician (SPÖ)
- Heinold Fast (1929–2015), German Mennonite theologian
- Howard Fast (1914-2003), American writer
- Jesper Fast (* 1991), Swedish ice hockey player
- Julius Fast (1919–2008), American author
- Larry Fast (* 1951), American musician and composer
- Omer Fast (* 1972), Israeli artist
- Sven-Bernhard Fast (* 1951), Swedish Lutheran bishop
- Victoria Fast (* 1985), German actress of Kenyan origin
See also:
Wiktionary: fast - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
