FAS

Origin

FAS

2.
Foreign Agricultural Service.
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F.A.S.

Commerce.
free alongside ship: without charge to the buyer for goods delivered alongside ship.
Also, f.a.s.

fa

[fah]
noun Music.
1.
the syllable used for the fourth tone of a diatonic scale.
2.
(in the fixed system of solmization) the tone F. Compare sol-fa (def. 1).

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see gamut

[fah]
noun
the twentieth letter of the Arabic alphabet.

Origin:
< Arabic
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FAS or f.a.s.
 
abbreviation for
free alongside ship
 
f.a.s. or f.a.s.
 
abbreviation for

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fa
fourth note in Guidonian scale; see gamut.
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fas definition


1. Frankenstein Cross Assemblers. A reconfigurable assembler package, especially suited for 8-bit processors, consisting of a base assembler module and a yacc parser, for each microprocessor, to handle mnemonics and addressing. Second party parser modules available from many sites.
Base assembler and yacc parser modules by Mark Zenier. FTP: ftp.njit.edu/pub/msdos/frankasm/frankasm.zoo.
2. FAS. A general purpose language sponsored by the Finnish government in the 70's and 80's.

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FAS
  1. Federation of American Scientists

  2. fetal alcohol syndrome

  3. Foreign Agricultural Service

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