Far

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Far or FAR may refer to:

Contents 1 Organizations 2 Science, technology, and medicine 3 Transportation 4 Television, film, and music 5 Computers 6 Business 7 Government 8 Places 9 See also

[edit] Organizations

• Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
• Forces Armées Rwandaises, the Rwandan Armed Forces
• Forces Armées Royales, the Moroccan Army
• FAR, Fund for Armenian Relief
• FAR, Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces), the first guerilla organization in Guatemala
• FAR Rabat, a Moroccan football club
• FAR (Tracteurs FAR), a French truck manufacturer

[edit] Science, technology, and medicine

• Far infrared astronomy
• Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a space-based telescope
• False Alarm Rate - same as Type I error and Probability of False alarms. Used as x-axis for ROC curves.
• False Acceptance Rate, in biometrics
• Fault Address Register, a register used by ARM processors which holds the address of the access being attempted when a fault occurred.
• The First Assessment Report of the IPCC

[edit] Transportation

• FAR, the IATA airport code for Fargo, North Dakota's Hector International Airport
• FAR, the code for Fargo, North Dakota's Amtrak station

[edit] Television, film, and music

• Far (band), rock band from California
• Far (album), the fifth studio album from musician Regina Spektor

[edit] Computers

• FAR Manager, a Win32 Norton Commander clone
• Far pointer, in computer science

[edit] Business

• Free after rebate, indicating a purchase costs $0 after the use of rebates
• F.A.R. Fatal Accident Rate, a term used to describe the safety record of an industry or occupation in deaths/1000people/10⁵ hours

[edit] Government

• Federal Acquisition Regulations
• Federal Aviation Regulations
• FAR, Floor Area Ratio, a measure of comparative urban density often used in the field of zoning

[edit] Places

• Far East, or South and Southeast Asia
• Far Eastern Republic
• Far Eastern Federal District

[edit] See also

• Distance
• Fars (disambiguation)
• Near

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