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FAP

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FAP may refer to:

Technology and industry

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  • FORTRAN Assembly Program, the macro assembler for some IBM mainframe computers
  • Fair Access Policy, a term for a bandwidth cap, limiting Internet usage
  • Femtocell (Femto Access Point), a small cellular telephone base station
  • Fabrika automobila Priboj, a motor vehicle manufacturer based in Priboj, Serbia
  • Film Academy of the Philippines, the Philippines' official counterpart of the United States' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  • Face Animation Parameter, part of the MPEG-4 face animation standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group

Science and medicine

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  • Functional analytic psychotherapy, clinical psychotherapy that uses a "radical behaviorist" position
  • Familial adenomatous polyposis, a condition where polyps form in the large intestine
  • Familial amyloid polyneuropathy, a neurodegenerative, genetically transmitted disease
  • Fixed action pattern, an instinctive animal behavioral sequence
  • Filamentous anoxygenic phototroph, a descriptive term for the Chloroflexia class of photosynthetic bacteria
  • FAP (gene), a human gene, encoding for the fibroblast activation protein
  • Fas-associated phosphatase, a molecule that inhibits the effect of Fas ligand to make cells initiate apoptosis
  • Final Anthropic Principle, a generalization of the Anthropic Principle, proposed by physicists Frank J. Tipler and John D. Barrow

Politics, government, and armed forces

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  • Broad Progressive Front (Argentina) (Spanish: Frente Amplio Progresista), an Argentine political party
  • Federal-aid primary highway system, part of the United States federal-aid highway program
  • Federal Art Project, the visual arts arm of the US Great Depression-era Federal One program
  • Francis Allen-Palenske (born 1976/1977), American politician from Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Family Assistance Plan, a failed US welfare program
  • FREE Australia Party, an Australian political party
  • Free German Workers' Party (German: Freiheitliche Arbeiter Partei), a defunct German political party
  • Paraguayan Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Paraguaya)
  • People's Armed Forces (French: Forces Armées Populaires), a Chadian insurgent group
  • Peronist Armed Forces, (Spanish: Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas), an Argentine guerrilla group operating in the 1960s and 1970s
  • Peruvian Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea del Peru)
  • Portuguese Air Force (Portuguese: Força Aérea Portuguesa)

Other

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  • Fap, a slang term for masturbation
  • Feminist Art Program, an art program for women only
  • FAP Basketball, a Cameroonian basketball team
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