FR
Encyclopedia
FR may stand for:
  • FR Fireball
    FR Fireball
    The Ryan FR Fireball was a mixed-power fighter aircraft designed by Ryan Aeronautical for the United States Navy during World War II. It was the Navy's first aircraft with jet propulsion. Only 66 aircraft were built before Japan surrendered in August 1945. The FR-1 Fireball equipped a single...

    , a fighter aircraft of the US Navy
  • Farbrausch
    Farbrausch
    Farbrausch, or Farb-rausch, is a German group of demomakers who made themselves particularly famous in the demoscene in December 2000 with a 64k intro called "fr-08: .the .product". "Farbrausch" literally translates to "rave of color", "color rush" or "color frenzy" in English...

    , a German demogroup
  • Federal Register
    Federal Register
    The Federal Register , abbreviated FR, or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains most routine publications and public notices of government agencies...

    , the official journal of the Federal Government of the United States
  • First responder
  • Fish & Richardson P.C., an American intellectual property and patent law firm
  • Flame retardant
    Flame retardant
    Flame retardants are chemicals used in thermoplastics, thermosets, textiles and coatings that inhibit or resist the spread of fire. These can be separated into several different classes of chemicals:...

  • Flash release, a technique used in wine pressing
  • Forgotten Realms
    Forgotten Realms
    The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Commonly referred to by players and game designers alike as "The Realms", it was created by game designer Ed Greenwood around 1967 as a setting for his childhood stories...

    , a fictional universe encountered in novels and games
  • Formula Renault
    Formula Renault
    Formula Renault is a class of formula racing founded in 1971. It is popular in Europe and other countries. Regarded as an entry-level series to motor racing, it is a respected series where drivers can learn advanced racecraft before moving on to Formula Three, World Series by Renault, GP2 or...

    , a racing class
  • Frankfurter Rundschau
    Frankfurter Rundschau
    The Frankfurter Rundschau is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. It is published every day but Sunday as a city, two regional and one nationwide issues and offers an online edition as well as an e-paper...

    , a German newspaper
  • Ffestiniog Railway
    Ffestiniog Railway
    The Ffestiniog Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway, located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park....

    , a tourist attraction in Gwynedd, Wales
  • Band 3
    Band 3
    Anion Exchanger 1 or Band 3 is a phylogenetically preserved transport protein responsible for mediating the exchange of chloride for bicarbonate across a plasma membrane. Functionally similar members of the AE clade are AE2 and AE3.It is ubiquitous throughout the vertebrates...

    , a protein
  • FireRed
    Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen
    are enhanced remakes of the original Pokémon Red and Blue video games, which were released in 1996. The new titles were developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance and have compatibility with the Game Boy Advance Wireless Adapter, which originally came bundled with...

    , a Pokémon game
  • Front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout
    Front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout
    In automotive design, an FR, or Front-engine, Rear-wheel drive layout is one where the engine is located at the front of the vehicle and driven wheels are located at the rear. This was the traditional automobile layout for most of the 20th century....

     (FR layout), front-engine, rear-wheel drive automobile design
  • Frame Relay
    Frame relay
    Frame Relay is a standardized wide area network technology that specifies the physical and logical link layers of digital telecommunications channels using a packet switching methodology...

     network technology
  • Framework region
    Framework region
    A region in the variable domain of a protein which belongs to the immunoglobulin superfamily, and which is less "variable" than the CDR.As an example, each chain of the TCR is composed of 4 framework regions, separated by 3 CDR....

    , a part of the structure of certain proteins
  • Franc
    Franc
    The franc is the name of several currency units, most notably the Swiss franc, still a major world currency today due to the prominence of Swiss financial institutions and the former currency of France, the French franc until the Euro was adopted in 1999...

    , a unit of currency
  • Free Republic
    Free Republic
    Free Republic is a moderated Internet forum for activists, and chat site for self-described conservatives, primarily within the United States. It presents articles and comments posted pseudonymously by registered members, known as "Freepers", using screen names...

  • Fribourg
    Canton of Fribourg
    The Canton of Fribourg is a canton of Switzerland. It is located in the west of the country. The capital of the canton is Fribourg. The name Fribourg is French, whereas is the German name for both the canton and the town.-History:...

    , canton of Switzerland
  • Frightened Rabbit
    Frightened Rabbit
    Frightened Rabbit are a Scottish indie rock band from Selkirk, formed in 2003. The lineup consists of lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and lyricist Scott Hutchison, guitarist and bassist Billy Kennedy, guitarist Andy Monaghan, drummer Grant Hutchison and guitarist and keyboardist Gordon Skene...

    , a Scottish indie rock band
  • Full Rate
    Full Rate
    Full Rate or FR or GSM-FR or GSM 06.10 was the first digital speech coding standard used in the GSM digital mobile phone system. The bit rate of the codec is 13 kbit/s, or 1.625 bits/audio sample...

    , a speech coding standard used in GSM
  • Fumble recovery in American football
  • the IATA airline designator for flights operated by Ryanair
    Ryanair
    Ryanair is an Irish low-cost airline. Its head office is at Dublin Airport and its primary operational bases at Dublin Airport and London Stansted Airport....


Places
  • Freiburg
    Freiburg
    Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...

    , a city in Germany
  • Freistadt
    Freistadt
    Freistadt is a small Austrian town in the state of Upper Austria in the region Mühlviertel. With a population of approximately 7,500 residents, it is a trade centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of a district of the same name District Freistadt...

    , a city in Upper Austria
  • Frosinone
    Province of Frosinone
    The Province of Frosinone is a province in the Lazio region of Italy, with 91 comuni . Its capital is the city of Frosinone. It has an area of 3,244 km², and a total population of 489,042 .The Province was established by Royal Decree on 6 December 1926 with territories belonging to Lazio...

    , a province of Italy, ISO 3166-2:IT code
  • France
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     (ISO 3166 country code, NATO country code)


Fr may stand for:
  • Fr., or Father (title), a title for a Christian clergyman, especially a priest
  • Francium
    Francium
    Francium is a chemical element with symbol Fr and atomic number 87. It was formerly known as eka-caesium and actinium K.Actually the least unstable isotope, francium-223 It has the lowest electronegativity of all known elements, and is the second rarest naturally occurring element...

     (Fr), the symbol for the chemical element
  • Franklin
    Statcoulomb
    The statcoulomb or franklin or electrostatic unit of charge is the physical unit for electrical charge used in the centimetre-gram-second system of units and Gaussian units. It is a derived unit given by...

     of charge
  • French
    French catheter scale
    The French scale or French gauge system is commonly used to measure the size of a catheter. It is most often abbreviated as Fr, but can often abbreviated as FR or F. It may also be abbreviated as CH or Ch in French speaking countries...

    , a scale for medical cathters
  • Froude number
    Froude number
    The Froude number is a dimensionless number defined as the ratio of a characteristic velocity to a gravitational wave velocity. It may equivalently be defined as the ratio of a body's inertia to gravitational forces. In fluid mechanics, the Froude number is used to determine the resistance of an...

     (physics)


fr may stand for:
  • French language
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

     (ISO 639 alpha-2, fr)


Fr. may refer to :
  • Elias Magnus Fries
    Elias Magnus Fries
    -External links:*, Authors of fungal names, Mushroom, the Journal of Wild Mushrooming.*...

    , a botanist whose author abbreviation in citations is Fr.


See also:
  • .fr
    .fr
    .fr is the country code top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for France. Along with .re and .tf, it is administered by AFNIC.The .fr top-level domain is divided into a number of second-level domains:...

    , the ccTLD for France
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