FF

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Contents 1 Arts 1.1 Film 1.2 Literature 1.3 Music 1.4 Entertainment 1.5 Games 2 Society 2.1 Business 2.2 Culture 2.3 Government, military, and politics 3 Technology 3.1 Computing and electronics 4 Other 5 See also

FF may refer to:

• 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, folios, (pages) following

FF may also be an abbreviation for:

• forced forfeit, a term used in RTS games.
• Foot fetish, being sexually attracted to feet.

[edit] Arts

[edit] Film

• Film festival, a venue for independent filmmakers or small studios to feature their cinema.
• Finos Film, the main filming company of Greece.

[edit] Literature

• Folios following, an archaic way of saying "and the following" (pages, paragraphs, etc.), written as ff in citations.
• Fan fiction, a derivative work of fiction written by a fan.
• Fantasy fiction, a genre of fiction utilizing supernatural or otherworldly motifs.

[edit] Music

• Fear Factory, an industrial metal/death metal band.
• Flavor Flav, a hip-hop artist.
• Foo Fighters, a popular post-grunge band.
• Fortissimo, written ff, a musical direction meaning "very strong".
• Franz Ferdinand (band), a popular Glaswegian pop band.
• Frou Frou, British pop duo.
• "FF", a song by the band Umphrey's McGee from the band's first album, Greatest Hits Vol. III.

[edit] Entertainment

• 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.

[edit] Games

• Factions farming, farming for faction points in the MMORPG Guild Wars by using repeatable missions.
• 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.
• 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

[edit] Society

[edit] 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.

[edit] Culture

• Fine Food
• 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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, 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.

[edit] Other

• FF, a large brassiere cup size.
• Fine Festival, a Danish beer made by Tuborg.

[edit] See also

• FFF
• Final Fantasy (disambiguation)