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Film EditingnounMWEthe activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a filmverified
Film FernnounMWEany fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leavesverified
Film FestivalnounMWEa cinematic festival that features films (usually films produced during the past year)verified
Film IndustrynounMWEthe entertainment industries involved in producing and distributing moviesverified
Film NoirnounMWEa movie that is marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, menace, and cynical charactersverified
Film ProjectornounMWEprojects successive frames from a reel of film to create moving picturesverified
Filmy FernnounMWEany fern of the genus Hymenophyllum growing in tropical humid regions and having translucent leavesverified
filternounIn Computing: a piece of software that transforms data in some way, such as removing unwanted spaces from text or formats it for use in another application.Control
filtering and inspection mechanismnounMWEA collective label for the hardware, firmware, and software components deployed at trust boundaries — such as firewalls, gateways, routers, and proxy devices — whose joint function is to examine data in transit and either permit or block its passage based on policy rules. These components enforce information flow control policies by operating in boundary protection devices that use rule sets or configuration settings to restrict services, filter packets by header information, or filter messages by content. In practice the field uses the phrase to direct attention to the *trustworthiness* of these components — the hardware, firmware, and software of which they are composed — because their integrity is critical to information flow enforcement. The expression covers the full stack of interoperable controls (packet filters, deep-packet-inspection engines, content scanners, etc.) treated as a single assurance object rather than any one discrete product.Control
Filtering RouternounMWEAn inter-network router that selectively prevents the passage of data packets according to a security policy. A filtering router may be used as a firewall or part of a firewall. A router usually receives a packet from a network and decides where to forward it on a second network. A filtering router does the same, but first decides whether the packet should be forwarded at all, according to some security policy. The policy is implemented by rules (packet filters) loaded into the router.Network
filtering rulenounMWEA policy-enforcement construct used in network security devices—routers, firewalls, and analogous boundary-protection components—that specifies a set of match conditions (such as source and destination address, protocol, and port) paired with a disposition (permit or deny) to be applied to traffic meeting those conditions. To apply a filtering process, a device is configured with a set of filtering rules, where each rule specifies a decision (e.g., accept or deny) that applies to a set of condition attributes such as protocol, source, destination, and so on. Rules are evaluated against each packet or flow, typically in ordered sequence, and together they constitute the operative expression of the organization's traffic-control policy. In standards usage (NIST SP 800-53 and SP 800-171), filtering rules for routers or firewalls are classified as security-relevant information alongside cryptographic key management data and access control lists.RequirementRegulated
Filtration SurgerynounMWEeye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissuesverified
Fimbrianounthin projections forming a fringe (especially around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube)verified
FIN (Financial Application)nounMWEThe SWIFT application within which all SWIFT user-to-user messages are input and output.SystemRegulatedPCI
Fin KeelnounMWEa metal plate projecting from the keel of a shallow vessel to give it greater lateral stabilityverified
Final CutnounMWEthe final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producerverified
Final SolutionnounMWEthe mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945verified
Finance CompanynounMWEa financial institution (often affiliated with a holding company or manufacturer) that makes loans to individuals or businessesverified
Financial AuthoritynounMWEA supervisory organization that is responsible for safeguarding and maintaining consumer confidence in the financial system.OrganizationRegulated
financial conditionnounMWEThe status of a firm's assets, liabilities and equity positions at a specific point in time, often described in a financial statement.Data
Financial EDI (FEDI)nounMWEFinancial electronic data interchange. An instrument for settling invoices by initiating payments, processing remittance data and automating reconciliation, through the exchange of electronic messages.DataRegulatedPII
Financial ForecastnounMWEa forecast of the expected financial position and the results of operations and cash flows based on expected conditionsverified
Financial industry participantsnounMWEFinancial institutions and other companies that are involved in the banking, securities, and/or insurance industry and are regulated by supervisory authorities.OrganizationRegulated
financial institutionnounMWEAny bank licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19); any finance company licensed under the Finance Companies Act (Cap. 108); any person that is approved as a financial institution under section 28; any money-changer licensed to conduct money-changing business, or any remitter licensed to conduct remittance business, under the Money-changing and Remittance Businesses Act (Cap. 187); any insurer licensed or regulated under the Insurance Act (Cap. 142); any insurance intermediary registered or regulated under the Insurance Act; any licensed financial adviser under the Financial Advisers Act (Cap. 110); any approved holding company, securities exchange, futures exchange, recognised market operator, licensed trade repository, licensed foreign trade repository, approved clearing house, recognised clearing house or holder of a capital markets services licence under the Securities and Futures Act (Cap. 289); any trustee for a collective investment scheme authorised under section 286 of the Securities and Futures Act, that is approved under that Act; any trustee-manager of a business trust that is registered under the Business Trusts Act (Cap. 31A); any licensed trust company under the Trust Companies Act (Cap. 336); any holder of a stored value facility under the Payment Systems (Oversight) Act (Cap. 222A); any designated financial holding company under the Financial Holding Companies Act 2013 (Act 13 of 2013); any person licensed under the Banking Act (Cap. 19) to carry on the business of issuing credit cards or charge cards in Singapore; and any other person licensed, approved, registered or regulated by the Authority under any written law, but does not include such person or class of persons as the Authority may, by regulations made under this section, prescribe.Organization
financial market infrastructurenounMWEA multilateral system among participating institutions, including the operator of the system, used for the purposes of clearing, settling or recording payments, securities, derivatives or other financial transactions.SystemRegulated
Financial OrganisationnounMWEan institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assetsverified
Financial OrganizationnounMWEan institution (public or private) that collects funds (from the public or other institutions) and invests them in financial assetsverified
Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC)nounMWEA nonprofit, information-sharing forum established by financial services industry participants to facilitate the public and private sectors' sharing of physical and cybersecurity threat and vulnerability information.OrganizationRegulated
financial transactionnounMWEAn event or agreement carried out between a buyer and a seller to exchange an asset for payment.EventRegulated
Finder's FeenounMWEa fee that is paid to someone who finds a source of financial backing or to someone who brings people together for business purposesverified
Finding of FactnounMWE(law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decisionverified
Fine PrintnounMWEthe part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small typeverified
Fine StructurenounMWEthe presence of groups of closely spaced spectrum lines observed in the atomic spectrum of certain elementsverified
FingernounA protocol to lookup user information on a given host. A Unix program that takes an e-mail address as input and returns information about the user who owns that e-mail address. On some systems, finger only reports whether the user is currently logged on. Other systems return additional information, such as the user's full name, address, and telephone number. Of course, the user must first enter this information into the system. Many e-mail programs now have a finger utility built into them.Network