FM

FM can refer to:

In science and engineering

• 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
  • Frequency modulation synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital 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, an SI unit of length (also known as the fermi)
• File manager, in computing
• .fm, country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the Federated States of Micronesia
• FM Towns, one of a line of personal computers by Fujitsu
• Titanium tetrachloride, a chemical found in some smoke screens

People

• FM Einheit, German musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
• F.M. Dostoevsky, prominent Russian writer of the 19th century
• FM-2030, a transhumanist philosopher

Titles

• A Federal Magistrate in the Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia
• Female
• Finance minister
• First Minister
• Flight Manager
• Facilities Manager
• Football manager, a synonym for coach
• Foreign Minister
• FIDE Master, a title awarded by the world chess governing body

Places

• Fargo-Moorhead, a metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, United States (more commonly abbreviated "F-M")
• Federated States of Micronesia: ISO 3166-1 country code, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code, and postal code

Businesses and organizations

• 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) industrial weighing scale manufacturer
• Shanghai Airlines: IATA airline designator

In entertainment

• FM (movie), a 1978 film
• F.M. (book), a book by Boris Akunin on Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
• Fictionmania, a non-commercial website dedicated to publishing and archiving transgender fiction
• Football Manager, a football management computer games series
• Football Mogul
• Forza Motorsport, an automobile Racing game, similar to the Gran Turismo series

In music

• Fm, the musical minor chord F minor
• "FM (No Static At All)", a song by Steely Dan
• "FM" (short for "frequent mutilation"), a song by The Slits
• Flogging Molly, an Irish American Irish punk band
• Fort Minor, a side project by Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda
• 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
• Five Musicians, also known as FM
• FM Records, a record label

Other

• US Army Field Manuals, in U.S. Army parlance
• Franklin & Marshall, also known as "F&M", a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Fayetteville-Manlius, commonly known as "F-M", a public K-12 school system in metropolitan Syracuse, New York
• 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
• Fibromyalgia or Fibromyalgia Syndrome, a chronic syndrome