FF
Appearance
FF may refer to:
- FF, Freedom Fighters, a part of Mukti Bahini enrolled mainly from rural civilians who were engaged in guerilla warfare in the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in1971 against Pakistani occupatin army.
- FF (or ff), a value in hexadecimal representing 255.
- ff (digraph), a pair of characters representing a single phoneme.
- ff (ff) a common typographical ligature.
FF may also be an abbreviation for:
- Foot fetish, being sexually attracted to feet.
- Fist Fuck (or Fist Fucking), the sexual practice of fisting.
- Forced Fumble, the act of forcing a fumble by defensive player in American Football.
Arts
Film
- Film festival, a venue for independent filmmakers or small studios to feature their cinema.
- Finos Film, the main filming company of Greece.
Literature
- Fan fiction, a derivative work of fiction written by a fan.
- Fantasy fiction, a genre of fiction utilizing supernatural or otherworldly motifs.
Music
- Fortissimo, written ff, a musical direction meaning "very strong".
- Foo Fighters, a post-grunge band.
- Fear Factory, an American heavy metal band.
- Flavor Flav, a hip-hop artist.
- Franz Ferdinand (band), a popular Glaswegian pop band.
- Frou Frou, British pop music duo.
- "FF", a song by the band Umphrey's McGee from the band's first album, Greatest Hits Vol. III.
Entertainment
- Ferguson Foundation, a gaming society.
- Family Feud, a television game show.
- Fantastic Four, a Marvel Comics superhero group.
- Fear Factor, a stunt/dare game or reality show.
- Football Focus, a football magazine programme broadcast on BBC One.
- FurFright, an annual furry convention.
Games
- Fatal Frame, a survival horror video game series where protagonists use cameras to exorcise spirits.
- Fatal Fury, a 2D fighting game series produced by SNK.
- Fiend Folio, a Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook.
- Fighting Fantasy, a series of role-playing game books that feature dice.
- Final Fantasy, an RPG franchise, primarily on consoles, now produced by Square Enix.
- Final Fantasy (video game), the first game in the franchise, originally produced by Square Company.
- Final Fight, a side-scrolling beat 'em up series produced by Capcom.
- Forced fumble, in American football, where the ball handler is deprived of possession by an opponent.
- Fortress Forever, a Half-Life 2 modification based on Valve Corporation's Team Fortress Classic.
- Freeway Flyboys, a cancelled North America version of Uchuu Race: Astro Go! Go!.
- forfeit, when admitting defeat in several online games
Society
Business
- Faber and Faber, a British publishing house.
- Fieldbus Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the fieldbus networking standard.
- Flat fee, also known as "flat rate", or "linear rate".
- FontFont, a font foundry.
Culture
- Flirty Fishing, a sexual form of proselytisation formerly employed by the Children of God / Family of Love religious movement.
- Fulfulde language, a language of West Africa.
Government, military, and politics
- Fianna Fáil, an Irish political party.
- Félix Fénéon, a French anarchist.
- Friendly fire, harm inflicted upon a soldier by an ally.
- U.S. Navy hull classification symbol for a frigate.
- Tailflash designation for U.S. Air Force aircraft stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.
- The initials FF appear on the Irish Defence Forces cap badge.
Technology
- Feet forwards motorcycle
- FF layout, a car designed with a front engine and front-wheel drive.
- Furylfuramide, an early food preservative discovered to be a carcinogen.
Computing and electronics
- Fast forward, a way of maneuvering a cassette tape or other linear media.
- File format, any of numerous ways to encode information on digital media. Occasionally appears abbreviated as ff within particular file format extensions.
- .ff file format, used by game developer Infinity Ward to store data securely.
- .ff file format, used by imaging technologies corporation Agfa-Gevaert to store font outline data.
- .ff file format, used by Arris CAD for Sigmac source code.
- Fill factor, a term applied to vision- or light-related parameters.
- Mozilla Firefox, actually FX not FF, a web browser.
- Flip-flop (electronics), a digital electronic circuit memory element.
- Form Feed, a control character in the C0 control code set used in ASCII.
- Full-frame digital SLR, a camera fitted with an image sensor equivalent in size to traditional 35mm film.
Other
- FF, a large brassiere cup size.
- FF, a abbreviation of French Franc
- Formula Ford SCCA class designator FF