FPM

  

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FPM

Specialty Definition: FPM

DomainDefinition

Computing

FPM Fast Page Mode Dynamic Random Access Memory FP/M An abstract machine and intermediate language for functional languages, used to implement Hope. FP/M is an optimisation of the SECD machine. ["The Compilation of FP/M Programs into Conventional Machine Code", A.J. Field, Imperial College, London, 1985]. ["Functional Programming", A.J. Field & P.G. Harrison, A-W 1988]. (1994-10-20). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Census

(Federal Personnel Manual) The official personnel policy, procedures, and regulation manual issued by the Office of Personnel Management. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: FPM

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

FPM

EnglishFour-phases modulationElectrical Engineering

FPM

FrenchPieds par minuteMeteorology & Standards, Transportation

FPM

GermanFuss je MinuteMeteorology & Standards, Transportation

FPM

ItalianPiedi al minutoN/A

FPM

PortugueseFactor promotor da mitoseMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: FPM

Specialty definitions using "FPM": FP/M, FPM DRAM. (references)
Non-English Usage: "FPM" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (mitosis-phase promoting factor).

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Commercial Usage: FPM

DomainTitle

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FPM

"FPM" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FPM" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (common)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: FPM

Expression using "FPM": FPM DRAM. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FPM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fpm

30

fpm memory

13

fpm heat treating

7

edo fpm

3

fpm group

2

aafp.org fpm

2

cfm convert fpm

2

fpm heat treat

2

4000 film film fpm fuji processor ray x

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FPM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "f-m-p"
 

+2 letters: flump, frump.

 

+3 letters: flumps, frumps, frumpy.

 

+4 letters: amplify, flumped, jumpoff, mudflap, offramp, perform, perfume, pomfret, preform.

 

+5 letters: campfire, dummkopf, firedamp, flumping, frumpier, frumpily, frumpish, jumpoffs, lumpfish, mudflaps, napiform, offramps, pacifism, paraform, pediform, performs, perfumed, perfumer, perfumes, piciform, piliform, piriform, pisiform, planform, platform, pomfrets, postform, preflame, preforms, pyriform, rifampin, simplify, slipform.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FPM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 50 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .--.    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010000 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#80 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0050 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405047

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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