Glossary
Terms starting with F
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- fugato
- A fugal passage within a composition.
- fugue
- A polyphonic composition that makes systematic use of imitation, usually based on a single subject, and that opens with a series of exposed entries on that subject.
- Full and Final Adoption
- A legal adoption in which the child receives all the rights of a natural born, legitimate child.
- Full Faith and Credit Clause information
- Under the constitution all states are to give the law of other states credence.
- full moon
- the phase of the moon when it is halfway around its orbit from new moon and opposite the sun in the sky; the full disk is illuminated
- FULL SERVICE
- A type of restaurant emphasizing waiting on the customer hand and foot and providing high quality food and upscale ambience. The cost of a meal in a full-service restaurant is usually above $15.00.
- Full Time Jobs
- Positions that cover the number of hours one would normally expect to work in a day. While it's possible to have a part time job as well as a full time job, most employees in full time positions have only the one job.
- Fumet
- A strong-flavoured cooking liquor used for flavouring sauces; fumet usually refers to concentrated mushroom and fish stocks. The liquid left over from cooking is boiled down rapidly to a syrupy consistency, to be added to an accompanying sauce. For meat…
- functional alleles
- Mutants that fail to complement each other in a cis-trans complementation test.
- fundamental
- The basic pitch of a tone.
- Fundamental Interaction
- In the Standard Model the fundamental interactions are the strong, electromagnetic, weak, and gravitational interactions. Four interaction types are all that are needed to explain all observed physical phenomena. The theory proposes at least one more…
- fundamental number
- The number of chromosome arms in a somatic cell of a particular species.
- Fundamental Particle
- A particle with no internal substructure. In the Standard Model the quarks, leptons, photons, gluons, W+ and W- bosons, and the Z bosons are fundamental. All other objects are made from these.
- Furosemide
- A diuretic medication that is used to treat horses who bleed. Also known by the product name Lasix.
- Fusilli
- Spiral-shaped pasta which comes in plain, wholewheat and flavoured varieties such as spinach or tomato. Fusilli tricolore comes in three colours: white (plain egg pasta), green (coloured with spinach), and red (coloured with tomato). The twists and turns are…
- FUSION ENERGY
- A power source, now under development, based on the release of energy that occurs when atoms are combined under the most extreme heat and pressure. It is the energy process of the sun and the stars.
- Future Interest information
- A vested interest in real property that will not arise until the future.
- FUTURES
- Agreement to buy a security for a set price at a certain date. Futures contracts usually involve commodities, indexes or financial futures.
- Futures Contract information
- Futures are assets in the form of contract, such as stocks, or commodities, that are bought or sold for future acceptance or delivery.
- FYI
- A network device used to translate between two different protocols. Used to interconnect two networks that use incompatible protocols.