FPS or fps may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • "F.P.S." (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), an episode of the TV show Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • The Fabulous Picture Show, a television show on Al Jazeera English
  • Funday PawPet Show, an Internet puppet show
  • FPS Magazine, a defunct magazine about animation
  • Five Point Someone, a novel by Chetan Bhagat
  • Front Porch Step, an American musician
  • Facepunch Studios, a British video game developer
  • First-person shooter, a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective

Education

  • Fargo Public Schools, North Dakota, United States
  • Foundation Public School, Pakistan
  • French Pastry School, a cooking school in Chicago, Illinois, United States
  • Future Problem Solvers, an educational competition
  • Freeport Public Schools, New York, United States

Finance

  • Faster Payment System (United Kingdom), a British banking initiative
  • Faster Payment System (Hong Kong), a Hong Kong payment system
  • Faster Payment System (Russia), a Russian payment system

Government and politics

  • Facilities Protection Service, of the Government of Iraq
  • Federal Protective Service (Russia)
  • Federal Protective Service (United States)
  • Federal Public Service, of the Federal Government of Belgium
  • Free Party Salzburg (German: '), a political party in Austria
  • Freedom Party of South Tyrol (German: '), a defunct political party in Italy

Science and technology

Units of measure

  • Foot per second
  • Foot-pound-second system
  • Frames per second, the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) appear on a display

Computing

  • FairPlay Streaming, a digital rights management technology by Apple
  • Fast packet switching, in networks
  • Fitness proportionate selection, a genetic operator used in genetic algorithms
  • Floating Point Systems, a defunct American computer hardware company

Other uses in science and technology

  • Fear-potentiated startle, a reflexive physiological reaction
  • Fission power system
  • Focal-plane shutter, in optical systems
  • Forties pipeline system in the North Sea
  • Frontal protection system, for vehicles
  • Sn-glycerol-3-phosphate 2-alpha-galactosyltransferase, also known as floridoside-phosphate synthase

Sports

  • France Poker Series, poker tour in France and French speaking countries
  • FPS (ice hockey), a Finnish ice hockey team
  • Frames per stop, a bowling industry term

Other uses

  • Fellow of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia
  • Finchley Progressive Synagogue

See also

  • FP (disambiguation)