Fast

Fast or FAST may refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Films

• Fast, an independent 2010 film starring Charlyne Yi and Steve Clemmons

Publications

• Faceted Application of Subject Terminology, a thesaurus of subject headings

Music

• Fast, an album by the musician Custom

Banking

• Fast And Secure Transfers, a real time electronic fund transfers service that allows customers to transfers SGD funds in Singapore

Companies and products

• Fairfield and Suisun Transit
• Fast Enterprises, an American company that produces tax software
• Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian company focusing on data search technologies
• Fast Product, a record label
• FAST, the NASDAQ symbol for Fastenal company

Computing and software

• Facilitated Application Specification Techniques, a team-oriented approach for requirement gathering
• FAST Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), a product of the Fast Search & Transfer division of Microsoft
• FAST protocol, an adaptation of the FIX protocol, optimized for streaming
• FAST TCP, a TCP congestion avoidance algorithm
• Features from accelerated segment test (FAST Corner Detection) (see Interest point detection and AST-based Corner detection)
• Federation Against Software Theft, a UK organization that pursues those who illegally distribute software
• Feedback Arc Set in Tournaments, a computational problem in graph theory
• USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Government

• Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, passed by the United States Congress

Language

• Fast as in high speed or velocity, may be used with anything that has a speed
• Fasting, abstaining from food and water for a certain period of time

Military

• Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team, a branch of the United States Marine Corps

Organizations

• Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
• Firefighter Assist and Search Team, a team of firefighters dedicated to the rescue of other firefighters
• Free and Secure Trade, a Canada-United States program to facilitate faster cross border trade

People

• Alexia Fast (born 1992), Canadian actress
• Howard Fast (1914–2003), American novelist and television writer
• Jonathan Fast (born 1948), American author, son of Howard Fast
• Molly Jong-Fast (born 1978), American author, daughter of Jonathan Fast
• Brian Leiser, nicknamed "Fast", a musician in the band Fun Lovin' Criminals

Science

• FAST (stroke), (Face, Arm, Speech, and Time) a proposed method to detect the beginning of a stroke
• Facilitated Access to the Space Environment for Technology Development and Training, a NASA program
• Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
• Farpoint Asteroid Search Team, an asteroid search team located at the Farpoint Observatory
• Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer, one in the series of NASA's Small Explorer spacecraft
• Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool
• Features from accelerated segment test, computer vision method for corner detection
• Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, the world's largest single-dish radio telescope (China)
• 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
• Fourier amplitude sensitivity testing, a variance-based global sensitivity analysis method
• Fuel And Sensor Tactical (FAST) Packs, a type of Conformal Fuel Tank developed for the F-15.
• Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
• Future Attribute Screening Technology

Sports

• Farmington, Missouri Area Swim Team
• Fast bowling, a practice in cricket
• Fifteen and Send Time, a type of dog agility competition
• Nacional Fast Clube, a Brazilian football club
• Fast, speed racing for dirt horse racetrack

See also

• All pages with titles containing fast
• Faster (disambiguation)