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Fawn LilynounMWECalifornia dogtooth violet with creamy white flowers sometimes yellow-tingedverified
Feabane MulletnounMWEhairy perennial Eurasian herb with yellow daisylike flowers reputed to destroy or drive away fleasverified
Fearfulnessnounan emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)verified
Feather GeraniumnounMWEEurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-green flowersverified
Featherbeddingnounthe practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are requiredverified
Featurenoun(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kindData
Feature ExtractionnounMWEa more general method in which one tries to develop a transformation of the input space onto the lowdimensional subspace that preserves most of the relevant informationProcess
Feature ImportancenounMWEhow important the feature was for the classification performance of the model; a measure of the individual contribution of the corresponding feature for a particular classifier, regardless of the shape (e.g., linear or nonlinear relationship) or direction of the feature effectMetric
Feature of SpeechnounMWE(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kindverified
Feature ShiftnounMWEUnlike joint distribution shift detection, which cannot localize which features caused the shift, we define a new hypothesis test for each feature individually. Naïvely, the simplest test would be to check if the marginal distributions have changed for each feature (as explored by [25]); however, the marginal distribution would be easy for an adversary to simulate (e.g., by looping the sensor values from a previous day). Thus, marginal tests are not sufficient for our purpose. Therefore, we propose to use conditional distribution tests. More formally, our null and alternative hypothesis for the j-th feature is that its full conditional distribution (i.e., its distribution given all other features) has not shifted for all values of the other features.Metric
Fecal ImpactionnounMWEaccumulation of hardened feces in the rectum or lower colon which the person cannot moveverified
Fecal Occult TestnounMWEa test performed at home in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of bloodverified
Federal Bridge Certification AuthoritynounMWEThe Federal Bridge Certification Authority consists of a collection of Public Key Infrastructure components (Certificate Authorities, Directories, Certificate Policies and Certificate Practice Statements) that are used to provide peer-to-peer interoperability among Agency Principal Certification Authorities.SystemRegulatedCUI
Federal Bridge Certification Authority MembranenounMWEThe Federal Bridge Certification Authority Membrane consists of a collection of Public Key Infrastructure components including a variety of Certification Authority PKI products, Databases, CA specific Directories, Border Directory, Firewalls, Routers, Randomizers, etc.SystemRegulatedCUI
Federal Bridge Certification Authority Operational AuthoritynounMWEThe Federal Bridge Certification Authority Operational Authority is the organization selected by the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority to be responsible for operating the Federal Bridge Certification Authority.OrganizationRegulatedCUI
Federal Enterprise ArchitecturenounMWEA business-based framework for governmentwide improvement developed by the Office of Management and Budget that is intended to facilitate efforts to transform the federal government to one that is citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based.FrameworkInternal
Federal Information Processing StandardnounMWEA standard for adoption and use by federal departments and agencies that has been developed within the Information Technology Laboratory and published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. A FIPS covers some topic in information technology in order to achieve a common level of quality or some level of interoperability.FrameworkRegulatedCUI
Federal Information Security Management ActnounMWEA statute (Title III, P.L. 107-347) that requires agencies to assess risk to information systems and provide information security protections commensurate with the risk. FISMA also requires that agencies integrate information security into their capital planning and enterprise architecture processes, conduct annual information systems security reviews of all programs and systems, and report the results of those reviews to OMB.FrameworkRegulated
Federal Information SystemnounMWEAn information system used or operated by an executive agency, by a contractor of an executive agency, or by another organization on behalf of an executive agency.SystemRegulatedCUI
Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ AssociationnounMWEAn organization whose members come from federal agencies, industry, and academic institutions devoted to improving the IT security awareness and knowledge within the federal government and its related external workforce.OrganizationInternal
Federal Job Safety LawnounMWEa law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employmentverified
Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy AuthoritynounMWEThe Federal PKI Policy Authority is a federal government body responsible for setting, implementing, and administering policy decisions regarding interagency PKI interoperability that uses the FBCA.Credential
Federal Reserve BanksnounMWEThe Federal Reserve Banks provide a variety of financial services including retail and wholesale payments. The Federal Reserve Bank operates a nationwide system for clearing and settling checks drawn on depository institutions located in all regions of the United States.OrganizationRegulated
federal securities lawnounMWEConsists of a handful of laws passed between 1933 and 1940, as well as legislation enacted in 1970. The federal laws stem from Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce. Therefore the laws are generally limited to transactions involving transportation or communication using interstate commerce or the mail.FrameworkRegulated
Federal Tax LiennounMWElien of the United States on all property of a taxpayer who fails to pay the federal government the taxes for which he or she is liableverified
Federated LearningnounMWEAn approach to machine learning which addresses problems of data governance and privacy by training algorithms collaboratively without transferring the data to a central location. Each federated device trains on data locally and shares its local model parameters instead of sharing the training data. Different federated learning systems have different topologies that involve different ways of sharing parameters.Capability
Federationnounthe act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairsverified
FedwirenounThe Federal Reserve Bank's nationwide real time gross settlement electronic funds and securities transfer network. Fedwire® is a credit transfer system. Each funds transfer is settled individually against an institution's reserve or clearing account on the books of the Federal Reserve. The transaction is considered an irrevocable payment as it is processed.NetworkRegulated
Fedwire Funds ServicenounMWEThe Federal Reserve Banks' high-speed electronic funds transfer system. As a real-time gross settlement system, the Fedwire® Funds Service processes and settles individual payments between participants immediately in central bank money. Once processed, these payments are final.SystemRegulated
Fedwire Securities ServicenounMWEThe Federal Reserve Banks' high-speed electronic payments system for maintaining securities accounts and for effecting securities transfers. The Fedwire® Securities Service provides a real-time, delivery-versus-payment (DVP), gross settlement system that allows for the immediate, simultaneous transfer of securities against payment. Once processed, securities transfers are final.SystemRegulated
Feedback CircuitnounMWEa circuit that feeds back some of the output to the input of a systemverified
Feedback LoopnounMWEdescribes the process of leveraging the output of an AI system and corresponding end-user actions in order to retrain and improve models over time. The AI-generated output (predictions or recommendations) are compared against the final decision (for example, to perform work or not) and provides feedback to the model, allowing it to learn from its mistakes.Process