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FSM

Specialty Definition: FSM

DomainDefinition

Computing

FSM 1. Finite State Machine. 2. FDDI Switching Module. (3Com implements this device on its LAN switches). [What is it?] (1997-05-16). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: FSM

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

FSM

EnglishFunction Specific ModulesComputing

FSM

FrenchÉtats fédérés de MicronésieGeography, Law

FSM

GermanFöderierte Staaten von MikronesienGeography, Law

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

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Crosswords: FSM

Specialty definitions using "FSM": Finite State MachineTLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: FSM

DomainTitle

High Tech

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: FSM

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Micronesia

The FSM became a member of the United Nations in 1991. (references)

Micronesia

The FSM public sector plays a central role in the economy as the administrator of the Compact money. (references)

Micronesia

Foreign commercial fishing fleets pay over $20 million annually for the right to operate in FSM territorial waters. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: FSM

"FSM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FSM" is used about 34 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 (proper)100%3459,261

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FSM

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

fsm

78

40s fsm

6

congress fsm

3

30s fsm

3

associate east fsm river

2

fsm telecom

2

fsm fujikura

2

fsm yap

2

fsm news

2

error fsm qm

2

fsm web.net

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

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Anagrams: FSM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "f-m-s"
 

+1 letter: emfs, fems.

 

+2 letters: bumfs, fames, farms, femes, films, firms, flams, foams, forms, fumes, miffs, muffs.

 

+3 letters: famish, famous, fanums, favism, femmes, femurs, fermis, flames, fleams, flimsy, flumes, flumps, forams, formes, forums, frames, frumps, fumers, fumets, mafias, massif, misfit, motifs, muftis, myself.

 

+4 letters: affirms, aftmost, armfuls, armsful, ausform, comfits, defames, defoams, deforms, faddism, famines, famulus, fandoms, fantasm, fantoms, farmers, fascism, fathoms, fauvism, favisms, females, ferbams, ferrums, fideism, filmers, filmset, fimbles, firmans, firmers, firmest, flambes, flamens, flamers, flemish, flotsam, foamers, fogyism, foliums, foments, fomites, formals, formats, formers, formols, formyls, framers, frenums, frustum, fulhams, fullams, fulmars, fulsome, fumbles, fumiest, fumulus, himself, infirms, informs, leftism, maffias, mafiosi, mafioso, maftirs, massifs, mastiff, misfile, misfire, misfits, misform, mudfish, muffins, muffles, mugfuls, museful, mystify, refilms, reforms, selfdom, semifit, serfdom, sfumato.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FSM


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

46 53 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 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0053 004D

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

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

405347

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INDEX

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


  

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