FFF - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Field Flow Fractionation, a chemical separation method
  • Free Form Fabrication, also known as solid freeform fabrication, equivalent to rapid prototyping
  • FFF system, a humorous system of measurement, using the furlong, firkin, and fortnight as the base units of distance, mass, and time, respectively
  • FFF, a hexadecimal number with the value 4095
  • Fission-Fusion-Fission, referring to the component stages of the most common type of Hydrogen Bomb with a Fission primary, a Fusion core, and an outer blanket of natural Uranium.
  • Form, Fit, Function, a description of an item's interchangeability characteristics. If the specifications, or criteria, for form, fit and function of a particular item are met, then the item may generally be considered near to an exact identical and hence completely interchangeable with other items having the same requirements and/or use.

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