FA

FA, Fa or fa may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Gaming

• Fa Yuiry, a fictional character in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
• Jane's Fighters Anthology, a compilation of combat flight simulators
• Firearms (video game), a Half-Life modification
• Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance

Literature

• Fantasy Advertiser, a British comics fanzine whose title was later shortened to FA
• Farmers' Almanac, an annual North American periodical in publication since 1818
• Fear Agent, a comic book series
• Foreign Affairs, an American magazine and website on international relations and U.S. foreign policy

Music

• Fa, the fourth note of the musical scale spoken in Romance languages, equivalent to the "F" note in Germanic languages
  • "Do-Re-Mi", a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music
• Farm Aid, an annual charity concert
• Framing Armageddon, a 2007 heavy metal album by Iced Earth
• Fresh Aire, a 1975 album by Mannheim Steamroller

Other media

• Fame Academy, a television programme

Economics and finance

• Feasibility analysis
• Federal Association, Federal Savings Bank
• Financial adviser
• Financial analyst
• Fixed assets

Education

• Faculty assistant
• Faculty in Arts (certificate), in Pakistan
• Falmouth Academy
• Foxcroft Academy
• Friends Academy
• Fryeburg Academy

Government, law and politics

• Fa (concept), a Chinese philosophical concept covering law, ethics, and logic
• Family assistance
• Federal agent (disambiguation)
• Felonious assault
• Fisheries Agency, an agency in Taiwan

Maths, science and technology

Biochemistry and medicine

• Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease
• Fatty acids, important sources of fuel in organisms
• Fibroadenoma,benign tumors of the breast
• First aid
• Fluorescein angiography, a technique for examining the circulation of the retina and choroid of the eye
• Formamide, a chemical feedstock used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, herbicides, pesticides and hydrocyanic acid
• Friedreich’s ataxia, an inherited disease that causes progressive damage to the nervous system

Computing and mathematics

• Factor analysis, a statistical method
• Fibonacci Association, a mathematical organization that specializes in the Fibonacci sequence and related subjects
• Finite automata, a computational model
• Fractional anisotropy, a value that describes the anisotropy of a diffusion process
• Full adder, a digital circuit
• Functional analysis, a branch of mathematical analysis

Other uses in science and technology

• Nikon FA, a 35 mm SLR camera
• Femtoampere (fA), an SI unit of electric current equal to 10⁻¹⁵ A
• Fully automatic, in firearms
• General Aviation XFA, an experimental aircraft of the U.S. Army

Military

• Field artillery
• Flanking attack
• Focke-Achgelis, a defunct German helicopter manufacturer
• Frankford Arsenal, a former US Army ammunition plant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Frontal Aviation, in the Soviet Air Forces

Places

• Fa, Aude, a commune of the Aude département in France
• Fa-ye Bala, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Fa-ye Pain, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• French Africa

Sport

• The Football Association, the body that regulates football in England
• First ascent, in climbing
• Free agent, an athlete with the ability to sign with any team

Transport

• ALCO FA, an American locomotive made by ALCO
• Area forecast, in aviation
• Certified mail, a postal class
• Ferrocarriles Argentinos, Argentine railways
• Final approach (aviation)
• Flight attendant
• Safair (IATA airline designator FA)

Other uses

• Fa (brand), a brand for personal care products
• Fall (Scots), an obsolete Scottish measurement of length
• Fang people, of central Africa
• Farsi (Persian language; ISO 639-1 code FA)
• Fat admirer
• Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA)
• Sweet F.A., a British slang phrase meaning 'nothing at all'