The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to:

Electrical engineering

• Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications:
  • FM broadcasting, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies
  • FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers

Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. ... Roberts FM radio FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia The Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Distionary, with definitions, pronunciations, examples... One might be looking for the academic discipline of communications. ... Very high frequency (VHF) is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz (wavelength 10 m) to 300 MHz (wavelength 1 m). ... Jump to: navigation, search Radio Wave is also the name of a commercial radio station in Blackpool, North West England. ... Frequency modulation synthesis (or FM synthesis) is a form of audio synthesis where the timbre of a simple waveform is changed by frequency modulating it with a modulating frequency that is also in the audio range, resulting in a more complex waveform and a different-sounding tone. ... A schematic representation of hearing. ... Jump to: navigation, search A digital system is one that uses numbers, especially binary numbers, for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system) or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons. ... Jump to: navigation, search A classic FM synthesizer, the Yamaha DX7. ...

Science

• Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length
• the chemical symbol for Fermium (Fm)
• Ferrous metal, otherwise known as iron

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People

• First Minister
• Foreign Minister
• Football manager
• Female

The term First Minister refers to the leader of a cabinet United Kingdom In the United Kingdom, the term First Minister was once used interchangeably with Prime Minister, as in Winston Churchills famous line: I did not become Her Majestys First Minister so that I might oversee the... A minister for foreign affairs, or foreign minister, is a cabinet minister who helps form the governmental foreign policy of a sovereign nation. ... Jump to: navigation, search Football Manager is a series of football management simulation games first released in 1982 by Addictive Games and later revived by Sports Interactive in 2004 to replace their Championship Manager series. ... Female symbol Female is the sex of an organism, or a part of an organism, which produces egg cells. ...

Places

• the Federated States of Micronesia
• Fargo-Moorhead, a metropolitan area of the United States (more commonly abbreviated F-M)

Fargo-Moorhead (F-M) is the name of the metropolitan area composed of Fargo, North Dakota, Moorhead, Minnesota, and surrounding cities. ... A metropolitan area is a large population center consisting of a large city and its adjacent zone of influence, or of several neighboring cities or towns and adjoining areas, with one or more large cities serving as its hub or hubs. ...

Organizations

• Fannie Mae, a colloquial name for the United States' Federal National Mortgage Association
• Freddie Mac, a similar colloquialism for the United States' Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation

The United States Federal Government created the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) (NYSE: FNM), commonly known as Fannie Mae, in 1938 to establish a secondary market for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). ... A colloquialism is an expression not used in formal speech or writing. ... The United States Federal Government created the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) NYSE: FNM, commonly known as Fannie Mae, in 1938 to establish a secondary market for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). ... The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (NYSE: FRE) is a stockholder-owned, publicly-traded company chartered by the United States federal government in 1970 to purchase mortgages and related securities, and then issues securities and bonds in financial markets backed by those mortgages in secondary markets. ... The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) (NYSE: FRE) is a stockholder-owned, publicly-traded company chartered by the United States federal government in 1970 to purchase mortgages and related securities, and then issue securities and bonds in financial markets backed by those mortgages in secondary markets. ...

Computing

• the .fm country-code top-level domain for the Federated States of Micronesia
• Fujitsu produced the FM line of personal computers (eg. the FM Towns)
• File Manager

.fm is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Federated States of Micronesia, a group of islands located in the Pacific Ocean. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... Fujitsu is a Japanese company specializing in semiconductors, computers (supercomputers, personal computers, servers), telecommunications, and services, and is headquartered in Tokyo. ... The FM TOWNS (also spelled FM-TOWNS, FM Towns and FM-Towns) system is a Japanese PC variant, built by Fujitsu from February 1989 to Summer 1997. ...

Military

• The designation for the US Army's series of Field Manuals.

Music

• the band Flogging Molly
• the Canadian progressive-rock band FM

FM is a Canadian progressive rock band. ...

Other

• the ISO 3166-1 country code for the Federated States of Micronesia
• Farm to Market Road