FM

FM or Fm may refer to:

In science and technology

• Frequency modulation, the carrying of information over an electromagnetic wave by varying its frequency. Its most common applications are:
  • FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies
  • FM broadcast band, frequency band used for FM broadcasting.
  • Frequency modulation synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital music synthesizers
• Fm, the chemical symbol for fermium
• Ferrous metal, any ferromagnetic metal (iron, nickel, cobalt, neodymium, or praseodymium)
• Fathom, a marine unit of length
• fm, the symbol for femtometre, a unit of length also called a fermi
• fM, the symbol for femtomolar, a unit of molar concentration
• .fm, country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the Federated States of Micronesia
• FM Towns, one of a line of personal computers by Fujitsu
• Formula Mazda, SCCA Class designation FM

People

• FM Einheit, German musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• FM-2030, a transhumanist philosopher

Titles

• Finance minister
• First Minister
• Foreign Minister
• FIDE Master, a title awarded by the world chess governing body
• Field Marshal the highest rank in the British Army
• A Federal Magistrate in the Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia
• Football manager, a type of coach (sport)

Places

• Federated States of Micronesia: ISO 3166-1 country code, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code, and postal code
• Province of Fermo, a province of Italy, ISO 3166-2:IT code
• Fargo-Moorhead, a metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
• Flower Mound, Texas, a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
• FM, IATA Code for Shanghai Airlines
• F-M, city Frýdek-Místek in Czech republic

Schools

• Franklin & Marshall, also known as "F&M", a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Fayetteville-Manlius, a public K-12 school system in metropolitan Syracuse, New York

Businesses and organizations

• Facilities management
• Fannie Mae, a colloquial name for the United States' Federal National Mortgage Association
• Freddie Mac, a similar colloquialism for the United States' Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
• FM Global, a company that specializes in property protection by providing insurance and risk management services
• Fairbanks-Morse, an historic American and Canadian manufacturer of industrial weighing scales and engines
• Shanghai Airlines (IATA airline designator)
• Future Movement, a Lebanese political party

In entertainment

• Football Manager, a popular computer-game series which used to be known as Championship Manager
• FM (TV series), 2009
• FM (film), 1978
• F.M. (book), by Boris Akunin on Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
• Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine

In music

• FM (soundtrack), the original soundtrack to the film
• "FM (No Static at All)", a song by Steely Dan from the soundtrack
• FM Records, a record label
• "FM" (short for "frequent mutilation"), a song by The Slits
• Fm, the musical minor chord F minor

Musical artists

• FM (Canadian band), a Canadian progressive rock band
• FM (British band), a British AOR/hard rock band
• FM Einheit, a German musician and ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• Far East Movement, a 2003 Electro-hop quartet based in Los Angeles

In gaming

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, a video game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series
• Football Manager, a football management computer games series
• Forza Motorsport, automobile racing game similar to the Gran Turismo series
  • Forza Motorsport 2
• FM Planet, a fictional planet in the video game Megaman Star Force

Other uses

• Family medicine
• Female
• US Army Field Manuals, in U.S. Army parlance
• Facility management
• Farm to Market Road (sometimes written "F-t-M"), a state or county road which connects rural and agricultural areas to market towns. Abbreviated "FM" in Texas, United States
• Farmers' market
• Fibromyalgia, a chronic syndrome

See also

• F&M (disambiguation)