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FM or Fm may refer to:
In science and technology
- Frequency modulation, the carrying of information over an electromagnetic wave by varying its frequency. Its most common applications are:
- FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies
- FM broadcast band, frequency band used for FM broadcasting
- Frequency modulation synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital music synthesizers
- Fm, the chemical symbol for fermium
- FM (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen using Fludarabine and Mitoxantrone
- Ferrous metal, any ferromagnetic metal (iron, nickel, cobalt, neodymium, or praseodymium)
- Fathom, a marine unit of length
- fm, the symbol for femtometre, a unit of length also called a fermi
- fM, the symbol for femtomolar, a unit of molar concentration
- .fm, country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the Federated States of Micronesia
- FM Towns, one of a line of personal computers by Fujitsu
- Formula Mazda, SCCA Class designation FM
- File manager or file browser, a computer program that provides a user interface to work with file systems
- Fleet Management usually in GPS-based tracking
People
- F.M. Einheit (born 1958), German musician, ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
- Ferdinand Marcos (1917–1989), President of the Philippines
- FM-2030 (1930–2000), transhumanist philosopher
Titles
- Finance minister, a executive or cabinet position in a government
- First Minister, the leader of a government cabinet
- Foreign minister, a cabinet minister who helps form the foreign policy of a sovereign state
- FIDE Master, a title awarded by the world chess governing body
- Field marshal the highest rank in the British Army
- A Federal Magistrate in the Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia
- Football manager, a type of Coach
Places
- Federated States of Micronesia: ISO 3166-1 country code, FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code, and postal code
- Province of Fermo, a province of Italy, ISO 3166-2:IT code
- Fargo–Moorhead, a metropolitan area comprising Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, United States
- Flower Mound, Texas, a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
- FM, IATA Code for Shanghai Airlines
- F-M, city Frýdek-Místek in Czech republic
Schools
- Franklin & Marshall, also known as "F&M", a private liberal arts college in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Fayetteville-Manlius, a public K-12 school system in metropolitan Syracuse, New York
Businesses and organizations
- Facilities management
- Fannie Mae, a colloquial name for the United States' Federal National Mortgage Association
- Freddie Mac, a similar colloquialism for the United States' Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
- FM Global (Factory Mutual), a company that specializes in property protection by providing insurance and risk management services
- Fairbanks-Morse, an historic American and Canadian manufacturer of industrial weighing scales and engines
- Shanghai Airlines (IATA airline designator), an airline headquartered in Shanghai
- Future Movement, a Lebanese political party
In entertainment
- Football Manager, a popular management computer-game series published by SEGA which used to be known as Championship Manager
- FM (TV channel), American TV network
- FM (2009 TV series), 2009
- FM (film), 1978
- F.M. (novel), by Boris Akunin on Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fifteen Minutes Magazine, a weekly publication of the Harvard Crimson
- Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine
In music
- FM (soundtrack), the original soundtrack to the film
- "FM (No Static at All)", a 1978 song by Steely Dan from the soundtrack
- FM Records, a record label
- "FM" (short for "frequent mutilation"), a song by The Slits
- FM (EP), a 2015 extended play by South Korean girl group Crayon Pop
- Fm, the musical chord F minor
Musical artists
- FM (Canadian band), a Canadian progressive rock band
- FM (British band), a British AOR/hard rock band
- FM Static, a Canadian pop punk duo.
- F.M. Einheit (born 1958), German musician and ex-member of Einstürzende Neubauten
- Fleetwood Mac, a British/American rock band.
- Far East Movement, a hip hop/electropop quartet based in Los Angeles
In gaming
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, a video game based on the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga and anime series
- Forza Motorsport, automobile racing game similar to the Gran Turismo series
- Forza Motorsport 2, a racing video game developed by Turn 10 Studios for the Xbox 360 console
- FM Planet, a fictional planet in the video game Mega Man Star Force
Other uses
- Family medicine, a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages
- Female, the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces non-mobile ova (egg cells)
- U.S. Army Field Manuals, in U.S. Army parlance
- Facility management, an interdisciplinary field devoted to the co-ordination of all business support services
- Farm-to-market road (sometimes written "F-t-M"), a state or county road which connects rural and agricultural areas to market towns. Abbreviated "FM" in Texas, United States
- Farmers' market, consists of individual vendors
- Fibromyalgia, a chronic syndrome
See also
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