FM
Appearance
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