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  • Failure Modes

    Manner in which machine, process, or system failure can occur.

  • Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

    (IEC) A method of reliability analysis intended to identify failures, at the basic component level, which have significant consequences affecting the system performance in the application considered.

  • Failure Modes and Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

    (IEC) A logical extension of FMEA which analyzes the severity of the consequences of failure.

  • Failure Modes Effect and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

    A method of failure mode analysis that produces a quantified measure of reliability.

  • False Count

  • False Desert

    A Fraction of a sequence of a gene, including its introns which is not covered by any of the gene predictions.

  • False Negative

    The probability that a segment that is known to code for protein is not correctly predicted to be coding, specified as per-base pair or per-amino acid rate.

  • False Positive

    The probability that a segment that is predicted to code for protein is not in fact known to be coding, given as a per-base pair or per-amino acid rate. Only those exons that have some overlap to the region of the genome that is defined by the cDNA alignment are counted. Exons that lie outside this region are relegated to the over-predictions.

  • Familial Mediterranean Fever

    An inherited disease whose chief symptoms are recurrent fevers and severe abdominal pain due to inflammation of the abdominal cavity. Other symptoms include arthritis, chest pain from inflammation of the lung cavity, and skin rashes.

  • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

    Covers rights of parents of school children regarding reviewing, amending and disclosing educational records.

  • FAQs

    Frequently Asked Questions

  • FASEB

    Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

  • Fast Track Project

    The method of overlapping project life cycle stages to reduce the overall project time line.

  • FAT

    Factory Acceptance Testing

  • Fault

    An incorrect step, process, or data definition in a computer program which causes the program to perform in an unintended or unanticipated manner.

  • Fault Seeding

  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

    (IEC) The identification and analysis of conditions and factors which cause or contribute to the occurrence of a defined undesirable event, usually one which significantly affects system performance, economy, safety or other required characteristics.

  • FB

    Foundation Board (ISPE term)

  • FBD

    Function Block Diagram

  • FBE

    Flat-Bed Electrophoresis

  • FCC

    Federal Communications Commission

  • FCC

    Food Chemical Codex

  • FCEA

    Fully Crosslinked Elastomeric Alloy

  • FCI

    Fluid Controls Institute

  • FD

    Functional Design