FAST

FAST

Fast may refer to:
* Fasting, abstaining from food
* Nacional Fast Clube, a Brazilian football club
* A speed racing for dirt horse racetracks
* Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies
* Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
* "Fast", an album by the musician Custom
* Fast Product, a record label
* Brian Leiser, nicknamed "Fast", a musician in the band Fun Lovin' Criminals

FAST may stand for:
* Fairfield and Suisun Transit
* Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
* Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
* Fast and Advanced Storyboard Tools (FAST) Project, a STREP Project supported by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme
* FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming
* Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
* Firefighter Assist and Search Team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters
* The NASDAQ symbol for Fastenal company
* Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition
* USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
* Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope (China)
* Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch of the United States Marine Corps
* Flexible Architecture for Simulation and Testing, a Stanford project for prototyping novel computer architecture ideas
* Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, an ultrasound used to examine the abdomen of a trauma patient
* Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology, Pakistan
* Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade
* Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
* Farmington Area Swim Team

ee also

* ATSF


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  • Fast — Fast, a. [Compar. {Faster}; superl. {Fastest}.] [OE., firm, strong, not loose, AS. f[ae]st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast, OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fast — als Abkürzung steht für: First Assistance Samaritian Team, ein Auslandshilfe Team des Arbeiter Samariter Bundes e.V. Fast AQM Scalable TCP, ein Protokoll in der Informatik Fast Search and Transfer, eine norwegische Firma für… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • FAST — als Abkürzung steht für: Fabbrica Automobili Sport Torino, einen von 1919 bis 1925 bestehenden italienischen Automobilproduzenten FAST (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) einen Test zur Erkennung eines Schlaganfalls First Assistance Samaritian Team, ein… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Fast — Fast, adv. [OE. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. f[ae]ste. See {Fast}, a.] 1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably. [1913 Webster] We will bind thee fast. Judg. xv. 13. [1913 Webster] 2. In a fast or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fast by — Fast Fast, adv. [OE. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. f[ae]ste. See {Fast}, a.] 1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably. [1913 Webster] We will bind thee fast. Judg. xv. 13. [1913 Webster] 2. In a fast or …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fast — Fast, n. [OE. faste, fast; cf. AS. f[ae]sten, OHG. fasta, G. faste. See {Fast}, v. i.] 1. Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment. [1913 Webster] Surfeit is the father of much fast. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Voluntary abstinence from… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fast — Fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fasting}.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG. fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth. fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.] 1. To abstain from food; …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Fast — Fast, n. That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fast — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fæst; akin to Old High German festi firm, Old Norse fastr, Armenian hast Date: before 12th century 1. a. firmly fixed < roots fast in the ground > b. tightly shut < the drawers were fast > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • fast — See: HARD AND FAST, PLAY FAST AND LOOSE …   Dictionary of American idioms

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