FA
People
Places
- Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude département in France
- Falmouth Academy, a private college-preparatory school in Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
- Foxcroft Academy, a private high school in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, USA
- Friends Academy, a Quaker college preparatory school in Locust Valley, New York, USA
- Fryeburg Academy, a private school in Fryeburg, Maine, USA
Arts and entertainment
- Fa (musical note), the name for F in fixed-do solfège
- Fa Yuiry, a fictional character in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
- Fantasy Advertiser, later shortened to FA, a British comics fanzine
- Firearms (video game), a 1998 Half-Life modification commonly abbreviated as FA
Government, law and politics
- Fa (philosophy), a Chinese philosophical concept covering law, ethics, and logic
- Falange Auténtica (Authentic Phalanx), a Falangist political party in Spain
- Fisheries Agency, a government agency in Taiwan
Languages and alphabets
- Fa (letter), the seventeenth letter of the Arabic abjad
- Faʼ language, one of the Bantu languages of Cameroon
- fa, ISO 639-1 code of the Persian language
Math, science, and technology
- Factor analysis, a statistical method
- Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease
- Fatty acid, a carboxylic acid with a long aliphatic chain
- Fayalite, the iron-rich end-member in the olivine solid solution series of minerals
- Femtoampere (fA), an SI unit of electric current equal to 10−15 A
- Fluorescein angiography, a technique for examining the circulation of the retina and choroid of the eye
- Folic acid, one of the B vitamins
- Folinic acid, a medication
- Fractional anisotropy, a value that describes the anisotropy of a diffusion process
- Friedreich's ataxia, an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system
- Nikon FA, a 35 mm SLR camera
Military
- Field artillery
- Focke-Achgelis, a defunct German helicopter manufacturer
- Forschungsamt (Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry), the signals intelligence and cryptanalytic agency of the German Nazi Party
- Frankford Arsenal, a former US Army ammunition plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Frontal Aviation (Frontovaya Aviatsiya or "FA"), a branch of the Soviet Air Forces focused on battlefield air defence
Sport
- The Football Association, the body that regulates football in England
- First ascent, in the sport of climbing and mountaineering; different from first free ascent (or FFA)
- Free agent, a sports person no longer under contract with a club
Transport
- ALCO FA, an American locomotive made by ALCO
- Toyota FA, a heavy duty truck
- Area forecast, in aviation
- Ferrocarriles Argentinos, Argentine railways
- Safair (IATA airline designator FA), a South African aviation company
- NZR FA Class, aclass of steam locomotive used on New Zealand Railways
Other uses
- F.A. or Intermediate of Arts, an academic diploma
- Fa (brand), a brand for personal care products
- Fa or Fall (unit), an obsolete Scottish measurement of length
- Fat admirer, a person attracted to overweight people
- Financial adviser, a professional who renders financial services to clients
- Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), a program of recovery based on the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
See also
- General Aviation XFA, an experimental aircraft of the U.S. Army
- Sweet F.A., a British slang phrase meaning "nothing at all"
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